Social Networking Application Development

Running head: SOCIAL NETWORKING APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT
Social Networking Application Development
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Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................2
Discussion..................................................................................................................................2
Business Drivers.....................................................................................................................3
Current Process......................................................................................................................5
Proposed Process....................................................................................................................7
Software Detailed Design......................................................................................................7
User-Application Interaction..................................................................................................8
Conclusion................................................................................................................................10
Reference..................................................................................................................................11

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Introduction
The Internet bubble burst incident caused many dot com company to shut down.
Verbania Inc., one of those affected companies shut down in the year 2001.Now the company
is trying to launch itself once again with a new refreshed set of systems. This section will
discuss about the conceptual model of the application part, behaviour of the system, user-
system interaction, possible network securities for the application side of the system, business
design and system design.
Discussion
The company Verbania Inc. shut down due to the internet bubble burst incident and
now wants to re-launch itself once again, the following security measures can be
implemented in the mobile application side:
- Securing the application code – It can be achieved by developing the application from
scratch (developing the whole app without using any third-party source codes).
- Securing the backend network connection of the application – This will be achieved
by incorporating local database encryption of the app (application) and encrypting the
application connection with the server. Application encryption will be made either by
a secure socket layer (SSL), by using a virtual private network (VPN) incorporated
within the application and by including transport layer security (TLS) while
developing the app (Morera et al., 2016).
- Two-factor authentication - While signing up or logging in, the user will require an
OTP (one-time-password) along with his/ her saved password (Osei, Hayfron-
Acquah, & Kumasi, 2014).
- JSON web tokens will be used for exchanging data in an encrypted manner (El-Aziz
& Kannan, 2014).

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- Integrating mobile encryption policy – Since the application will be maintaining a
local database, file-level encryption will encrypt the data on a file-by-file basis. As a
result, even if the local database gets inspected by some third-party apps or users, it
cannot be read.
- Sensitive data of the user like passwords and user details will not be stored openly in
mobile devices.
- Software testing – before the final launching of the application, the app will be taken
through penetration testing to point out any possible application vulnerability and fix
them accordingly.
- A remote wipe facility will be included within the application. This facility can be
used to remove sensitive user data (if the user thinks they have any) from any stolen
or lost mobile device.
Business Drivers
Main business drivers for re-establishment of the Verbania Inc. are as follows:
- Account creation and maintaining with utmost security
- Discussion forum and posts
- VOIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) and messaging among friends
- Integration of gaming modules
- Calendar reminder inclusion
- Remote wipe facility
- 24/7 customer support availability
Account creation and maintaining
Registering a user will require the user to enter his/ her phone number and other
details; it will be sent to the database (automatic format checking and validation program
embedded with the database). If all the entered details are in a correct format and have no