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A Survey on the Security of Pervasive
Online Social Networks (POSNs) Department of Information Security
Engineering takshi_gupta2012@hotmail.com, gauravchoudhary7777@gmail.com, vishal_sharma2012@hotmail.com
Abstract Pervasive
Online Social Networks (POSNs) are the extensions of Online Social Networks
(OSNs) which facilitate connectivity irrespective of the domain and
properties of users. POSNs have been accumulated with the convergence of a
plethora of social networking platforms with a motivation of bridging their
gap. Over the last decade, OSNs have visually perceived an altogether
tremendous amount of advancement in terms of the number of users as well as
technology enablers. A single OSN is the property of an organization, which
ascertains smooth functioning of its accommodations for providing a quality
experience to their users. However, with POSNs, multiple OSNs have coalesced
through communities, circles, or only properties, which make
service-provisioning tedious and arduous to sustain. Especially, challenges
become rigorous when the focus is on the security perspective of
cross-platform OSNs, which are an integral part of POSNs. Thus, it is of
utmost paramountcy to highlight such a requirement and understand the current
situation while discussing the available state-of-the-art. With the
modernization of OSNs and convergence towards POSNs, it is compulsory to
understand the impact and reach of current solutions for enhancing the
security of users as well as associated services. This survey understands
this requisite and fixates on different sets of studies presented over the
last few years and surveys them for their applicability to POSNs. There is a
limited amount of content available for the security of POSNs. However, being
an extension to general OSNs, solutions applicable to OSNs are withal
included to understand the practicality for POSNs. Moreover, this survey
additionally includes content cognate to trust management and anomaly
detection in POSNs. In integration, a broad classification is additionally
presented for each category with a tabular comparison. At last, certain
future challenges, open issues, and research goals are presented, which can
be focused by leading or upcoming researchers while emphasizing the security
of POSNs. Keywords: Anomaly, Online Social Networks,
POSNs, Security, Trust, IoT +: Corresponding author: Vishal Sharma
Journal
of Internet Services and Information Security
(JISIS), 8(2): 48-86, May 2018
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