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| Title: | A Social Mechanism for Supporting Home Computer Security |
| Authors: | Wash, Rick
MacKie-Mason, Jeffrey K. |
| Keywords: | information security
incentive centered design
mechanism design
botnet
computer security
social computing |
| Issue Date: | 13-Dec-2008 |
| Publisher: | WISE |
| Citation: | Workshop on Information System Economics (WISE) ’08, Paris, France <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/63006> |
| Abstract: | Hackers have learned to leverage the enormous number
of poorly protected home computers by turning them into
a large distributed system (known as a botnet), making
home computers an important frontier for security
research. They present special problems: owners are unsophisticated, and usage profiles are varied making one-size-fits-all firewall policies ineffective. We propose a social firewall that collects security decisions and both
user and usage characteristics, and provides users with
personalized information to assist with allow/deny recommendations. To succeed, a social firewall must deal
with at least three user behavior issues: why contribute
private information? why make effort to provide quality
information? and, how to prevent manipulation by adversaries? We sketch an incentive-centered design approach to each problem. We provide an economic model and some analytic results for a solution to the fundamental problem: why contribute? We show that an excludable public goods mechanism can achieve a better outcome than a system without social motivators. |
| Appears in Collections: | Information, School of (SI)
Interdisciplinary and Peer-Reviewed
Public Policy, Gerald R. Ford School of
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