Designing User Incentives for Cybersecurity.

The article discusses improving user security practices and behavior for cybersecurity. Topics discussed include the flaws in the traditional approach to managing software vulnerabilities and cybersecurity risk, proposal for an adaptation of software producer offerings involving patching rights of u...

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Publicado en:Communications of the ACM Vol. 57; no. 11; pp. 43 - 47
Autores principales: August, Terrence, August, Robert, Hyoduk Shin
Formato: Opinion
Publicado: Association for Computing Machinery Nov2014
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Sumario:The article discusses improving user security practices and behavior for cybersecurity. Topics discussed include the flaws in the traditional approach to managing software vulnerabilities and cybersecurity risk, proposal for an adaptation of software producer offerings involving patching rights of users and for users to be charged for the right to control patching of their individual copies of software.