TY - GEN
T1 - Managing the adoption of asymmetric bidirectional firewalls
T2 - 2012 IEEE Global Communications Conference, GLOBECOM 2012
AU - Khouzani, M. H R
AU - Sen, Soumya
AU - Shroff, Ness B.
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - The security of the Internet can be significantly improved if Internet Service Providers adopt firewalls to monitor traffic entering and leaving access networks. But this process suffers due to 'free-riding', and hence, regulatory requirements and 'seeding' strategies are required to influence the adoption process. In this paper, we analytically derive the equilibrium adoption levels and relate them to the initial seeding and mandating condition, and explore the issues of incentive alignment across users, firewall developers, and regulators. We define different notions of optimality and analytically develop optimum seeding and mandating policies.
AB - The security of the Internet can be significantly improved if Internet Service Providers adopt firewalls to monitor traffic entering and leaving access networks. But this process suffers due to 'free-riding', and hence, regulatory requirements and 'seeding' strategies are required to influence the adoption process. In this paper, we analytically derive the equilibrium adoption levels and relate them to the initial seeding and mandating condition, and explore the issues of incentive alignment across users, firewall developers, and regulators. We define different notions of optimality and analytically develop optimum seeding and mandating policies.
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U2 - 10.1109/GLOCOM.2012.6503229
DO - 10.1109/GLOCOM.2012.6503229
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84877679893
SN - 9781467309219
T3 - Proceedings - IEEE Global Communications Conference, GLOBECOM
SP - 911
EP - 916
BT - 2012 IEEE Global Communications Conference, GLOBECOM 2012
Y2 - 3 December 2012 through 7 December 2012
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