BCCS070

Social Network Security

L-T-P3-0-0 Credits3 Session2025-26 TypeTheory
Appears in 1 semester

B.Tech CSE (Cyber Security) · Sem 7 (Departmental Elective-IV)

Syllabus

5 units · 40 lecture hours
Unit1

Unit 1

8 hrs

FUNDAMENTALS OF SOCIAL NETWORKING Introduction to Semantic Web, Limitations of current Web, Development of Semantic Web, Emergence of the Social Web, Social Network analysis, Development of Social Network Analysis, Key concepts and measures in network analysis, Historical overview of privacy and security, Major paradigms, for understanding privacy and security

Unit2

Unit 2

8 hrs

SECURITY ISSUES IN SOCIAL NETWORKS The evolution of privacy and security concerns with networked technologies, Contextual influences on privacy attitudes and behaviors, Anonymity in a networked world.

Unit3

Unit 3

8 hrs

EXTRACTION AND MINING IN SOCIAL NETWORKING DATA Extracting evolution of Web Community from a Series of Web Archive, Detecting communities in social networks, Definition of community, Evaluating communities, Methods for community detection and mining, Applications of community mining algorithms, Tools for detecting communities social network infrastructures and communities, Big data and Privacy

Unit4

Unit 4

8 hrs

PREDICTING HUMAN BEHAVIOR AND PRIVACY ISSUES Understanding and predicting human behavior for social communities, User data Management, Inference and Distribution, Enabling new human experiences, Reality mining, Context, Awareness, Privacy in online social networks, Trust in online environment, What is Neo4j, Nodes, Relationships, Properties

Unit5

Unit 5

8 hrs

ACCESS CONTROL, PRIVACY AND IDENTITY MANAGEMENT Understand the access control requirements for Social Network, Enforcing Access Control Strategies, Authentication and Authorization, Roles-based Access Control, Host, storage and network access control options, Firewalls, Authentication, and Authorization in Social Network, Identity & Access Management, Single Sign-on, Identity Federation, Identity providers and service consumers, The role of Identity provisioning

Course Outcomes (COs)5 outcomes

After completion of the course student will be able to:

  1. CO1To develop semantic web related simple applicationsK2
  2. CO2To explain Privacy and Security issues in Social NetworkingK2
  3. CO3To explain the data extraction and mining of social networksK2
  4. CO4To discuss the prediction of human behavior in social communitiesK1
  5. CO5To describe the Access Control, Privacy and Security management of social networksK2

Text books

  1. Peter Mika, “Social Networks and the Semantic Web”, First Edition, Springer 2007.
  2. Borko Furht, “Handbook of Social Network Technologies and Application”, First Edition, Springer, 2010.
  3. David Easley, Jon Kleinberg, “Networks, Crowds, and Markets: Reasoning about a Highly Connected World”, First Edition, Cambridge University Press, 2010.
  4. Easley D. Kleinberg J., “Networks, Crowds, and Markets – Reasoning about a Highly Connected World”, Cambridge University Press, 2010.
  5. Jackson, Matthew O., “Social and Economic Networks”, Princeton University Press, 2008.
  6. GuandongXu ,Yanchun Zhang and Lin Li, “Web Mining and Social Networking – Techniques and applications”, First Edition, Springer, 2011.

Official AKTU syllabus

This subject is on page 6 of the original AKTU PDF.

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