INFORMATION SECURITY AS A SEGMENT OF SOCIAL NETWORK ACCOUNT AUDIT

Abstract

Information security includes a list of measures whose appropriate application ensures that the data contained in information systems are sufficiently protected from unauthorised access, unauthorised changes and unauthorised use, ensuring the integrity, confidentiality and availability of data in information systems. Information security is an essential and unavoidable aspect of any audit of accounts on social networks, which is carried out in natural conditions by applying methodological guidelines on a specific statement on a particular social network. A social network account audit is an independent review of an external person on the status of social media accounts, account activities and accounts information security. Nowadays, social networks are an essential factor in many people's daily lives, which suggests that they contain a large amount of information about users that can be confidential and sensitive and include photos, videos, payment card information, location, activities, and more. Thus, the security of social network users is, directly and indirectly, related to the security mechanisms of logging in to the network and how social network managers manage user data. The subject of research in this paper is the theoretical presentation of the importance of information security in the context of social network account audit by describing the challenges, risks and recommendations that conduct tests and draw conclusions about information security accounts on social networks. The main finding in the paper is that persons engaged in the social network account audit in each audit engagement should pay special attention to the information security of demands as an essential segment of the audit of rankings on social networks.