An access control model for data security in online social networks based on role and user credibility

Nadav Voloch, Priel Levy, Mor Elmakies, Ehud Gudes

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Abstract

During the past decade Online Social Networks (OSN) privacy has been thoroughly studied in many aspects. Some of these privacy related aspects are trust and credibility involving the OSN user-data conveyed by different relationships in the network. One of OSN major problems is that users expose their information in a manner thought to be relatively private, or even partially public, to unknown and possibly unwanted entities, such as adversaries, social bots, fake users, spammers or data-harvesters. That is one of the reasons OSN have become a major source of information for companies, different organizations and personal users, possibly misusing it for personal or business gain. Preventing this information leakage is the target of many OSN privacy models, such as Access Control, Relationship based models, Trust based models and many others. In this paper we suggest a new Role and Trust based Access Control model, denoted here as RTBAC, in which roles, that manifest different permissions, are assigned to the users connected to the Ego-node (the user sharing the information), and in addition, every user is evaluated trust wise by several criteria, such as total number of friends, age of user account, and friendship duration. These role and trust assessments provide more precise and viable information sharing decisions and enable better privacy control in the social network.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationCyber Security Cryptography and Machine Learning - 3rd International Symposium, CSCML 2019, Proceedings
EditorsShlomi Dolev, Danny Hendler, Sachin Lodha, Moti Yung
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages156-168
Number of pages13
ISBN (Print)9783030209506
DOIs
StatePublished - 2019
Externally publishedYes
Event3rd International Symposium on Cyber Security Cryptography and Machine Learning, CSCML 2019 - Beer Sheva, Israel
Duration: 27 Jun 201928 Jun 2019

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume11527 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference3rd International Symposium on Cyber Security Cryptography and Machine Learning, CSCML 2019
Country/TerritoryIsrael
CityBeer Sheva
Period27/06/1928/06/19

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019.

Keywords

  • Access control
  • Online Social Networks Privacy
  • Trust-based privacy models

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