A Social Mechanism for Supporting Home Computer Security
dc.contributor.author | Rick, Wash | |
dc.contributor.author | MacKie-Mason, Jeffrey K. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2009-04-01T15:34:15Z | |
dc.date.available | 2009-04-01T15:34:15Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2008-12-13 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Wash, R. and J. K. MacKie-Mason (2008), “A Social Mechanism for Supporting Home Computer Security”, Workshop on Information System Economics (WISE) ’08, Paris, France, 13-14 December 2008. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/62021> | en |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/62021 | |
dc.description.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 ecurity research. They present special problems: owners are unsophisticated, and usage profiles are varied making onesize- 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. | en |
dc.format.extent | 199088 bytes | |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en |
dc.publisher | Workshop on Information System Economics (WISE) | en |
dc.title | A Social Mechanism for Supporting Home Computer Security | en |
dc.type | Article | en |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Information and Library Science | |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Social Sciences | |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | Information, School of | en |
dc.contributor.affiliationumcampus | Ann Arbor | en |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/62021/1/social-firewall-wise08-final.pdf | |
dc.owningcollname | Information, School of (SI) |
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