Critical cybersecurity risk factors in digital social media: Analysis of information security requirements

Digital Social Media provides an excellent
communication platform through countless application such
as online forums, chatting channels, video streaming and
blogs. The greatest technological invention ever discovered
and gaining fast popularity globally among internet user.
Unfortunately, Social Media comes with several risks,
especially the cybersecurity risks that could cause serious
impacts to the cyber community. Cybersecurity risks are
currently becoming serious issues in Social Media. The
excitement of sharing their activities, statuses, locations,
feelings, they do not realize that the information they shared
could contribute to the critical cybersecurity risks. Hence,
the objectives of the research are to determine the critical
cybersecurity risks in social media digital platforms; and to
discuss their criticalness for three information security core
principles. Questionnaires were distributed to various cyber
community, including professional and non-professional
user that commonly used social media digital. The findings
show that the most critical cybersecurity risks on the three
core principles of information security requirements are
Identity Theft; Information Manipulation; Cyber Assault/
Bullying; Information Theft; Espionage; and Privacy
Violation. Findings also highlights other critical
cybersecurity risk factors in digital social media. Through
the findings, cyber community would be able to identify the
critical cybersecurity risk factors and address them
effectively.