Nudge: Intermediaries' role in interdependent network security

Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1879-1880

  Grossklags, Jens ^a   Radosavac, Svetlana ^b   Cárdenas, Alvaro A ^c   Chuang, John ^c  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DOCOMO USA LABS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

internet service provider incentives; security economics

Indexed keywords

END USERS; INVESTMENT DECISIONS; SECURITY ECONOMICS;

ECONOMICS; INTERNET; INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDERS; INVESTMENTS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

NETWORK SECURITY;

EID: 77954748613     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1774088.1774486     Document Type: Conference Paper

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