The application of game theory in mobile social media security analysis for companies

Using the social media services is becoming more and more popular nowadays. For companies and their employees, they communicate with customers and colleagues with the new ways of social media. More and more people tend to use mobile social media service at any time and any place but mobile virus and malware are dramatically increasing in frequency. The mobile social media has become a very popular attack target of attackers because of the security risks associated with mobile social media. The information security administrators of companies must take security solutions to defend against these sophisticated attackers. This paper applies game theory to analyze the possibility of the attackers´ attacks and suggests the defensive strategies for the defenders.