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Abstract | ||
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Security solutions fail not only because of technological or usability limitations, but also due to economic constraints and lack of coordinated adoption. Existing research conceptualizes security as a public good suffering from underinvestment, or as a private good with externalities, i.e. consequences that are not part of the price. It is also difficult to distinguish high and low quality security products, thus where there is incentive the resulting investments may be misdirected. We argue for a new paradigm of security solutions designed for communities rather than individuals. We leverage canonical economic theory of 'club goods' and 'common-pool resources' to encourage security through collective action and peer production. We operationalize these by providing examples of security solutions redesigned as club or pool goods. Investigating the paradigm of cooperation through community informs novel solutions that impinge on real world security and we advocate further research to enable this shift. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2012 | 10.1145/2413296.2413304 | NSPW |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
public good suffering,pool goods,low quality security product,new paradigm,existing research conceptualizes security,economic constraint,security solution,canonical economic theory,club goods,real world security,computer security,social networks,trust | Security convergence,Security through obscurity,Computer security,Asset (computer security),Security engineering,Computer science,Critical security studies,Cloud computing security,Corporate security,Computer security model | Conference |
Citations | PageRank | References |
7 | 0.52 | 28 |
Authors | ||
4 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zheng Dong | 1 | 53 | 3.75 |
| Vaibhav Garg | 2 | 96 | 9.58 |
| L. Jean Camp | 3 | 521 | 67.06 |
| Apu Kapadia | 4 | 1449 | 83.13 |