Security in Cloud Computing and Social Networking

Abstract

The last several decades, dramatic advances in computing power, storage, and networking technology have allowed the human race to generate, process, and share increasing amounts of information in dramatically new ways. Recently, a number of commercial and academic organizations have built large systems from commodity computers, disks, and networks, and have created software to make this hardware easier to program and manage with help of the most powerful and promising technologies called as a cloud-computing environment. Cloud computing is a combination of several key technologies that have evolved and matured over the years. It has a potential for cost savings to the enterprises but the security risk are also enormous. Enterprise looking into cloud computing technology as a way to cut down on cost and increase profitability should seriously analyze the security risk of cloud computing. Subsequently, the Internet has significantly changed the way our society connects with one another, does business, and socializes. Today’s youth have never known a world without the Internet, which is a piece of information adults must put into context when they think about and compare, generationally,  social networking use to face-to-face communications. Many social networking sites try to prevent those exploitations, but many attackers are still able to overcome those security countermeasures by using different techniques. Social network users may not be aware of such threats. In this study will discuss the importance and overview of cloud computing and social network and their security issues and also present the most specific uses.