Towards the Development of a Security Framework to Protect Against Social Networks Services Threats

Abstract

Internal security attacks are malicious and sometimes inadvertent in nature. Although security policies, standards, awareness,strategies and tools currently are usually put in place, employees usually engage in risky behaviours that can jeopardizebusiness interest. The problem has become acute with the proliferation of Social Networks Services (SNS) that has nowconstitute a threat through which business enterprise data networks can be attacked, leading to information leakage andexternal intrusions. The direction of this research is to propose, develop and test a framework that can be used to guide andmitigate against security threats and vulnerabilities on Social Network Services. This paper presents our thoughts andattempt at such accomplishment.Keywords - Social networks, threats, security, intrusion and attacks.