A community-centric access control scheme for Online Social Networks

Abstract

Online Social Network facilitate its users to form groups for sharing their personal information, interests and activities with their friends, relatives and others. Such type of information disclosure can cause problems for people in terms of security. Access of different group members is controlled in Online Social Networks to minimize such security risks to personal information and user resources. Researchers have used social network actor-relationship graph to control the access based on relationship type, trust and attributes. This paper discusses available techniques in CBAC, ABAC and ReBAC to provide security to social network data and objects. A community-centric access control model using brokerage roles, attributes, and trust techniques is presented with its formal description.