Nudge: Intermediaries’ role in interdependent network security. (English)
Acquisti, Alessandro (ed.) et al., Trust and trustworthy computing. Third international conference, TRUST 2010, Berlin, Germany, June 21‒23, 2010. Proceedings. Berlin: Springer (ISBN 978-3-642-13868-3/pbk). Lecture Notes in Computer Science 6101, 323-336 (2010).
Summary: By employing an interdependent security game-theoretic framework, we study how individual Internet Service Providers can coordinate the investment decisions of end users to improve the security and trustworthiness of the overall system. We discuss two different forms of intervention: rebates in combination with penalties (pay for outcome) and cost-subsidies (pay for effort).