CT-ISG: Collaborative Research: Incentives, Insurance and Audited Reputation: An Economic Approach to Controlling Spam

互联网受到包括垃圾邮件在内的安全问题的困扰，威胁到其作为新千年增长引擎的合法角色。虽然技术在应对网络安全问题方面取得了令人钦佩的进步，但问题不仅仅是技术本身。网络安全是涵盖技术、经济和社会问题的框架的一部分。技术解决方案的可用性需要由承担有效部署技术责任的服务提供商来补充。如今，解决方案的部署和责任的分配往往侧重于网络提供商对其客户的责任。在分散的互联网中，分配对远程网络的潜在影响的责任是重要的。这项研究寻求通过有效的激励分配来引导投资，以最大限度地减少对目的地网络的影响。安全威胁使互联网成为一个危险的环境，保险机制可以寻求通过风险管理来提高对互联网的有效和安全使用。本项目使用博弈论模型来研究邮件服务提供商之间的激励分配，以降低全球垃圾邮件的发生率。该项目将制定激励和保险机制，为自愿接受对网络其余部分的损害承担责任的提供商提供认证，对目前在互联网上观察到的垃圾邮件模式进行实证研究，以完善分析模型，并通过实验测试和验证机制和模型。这项研究试图启动互联网向负责任和组织良好的环境的演变

The Internet is plagued by security problems including spam, threatening its legitimate role as the engine of growth in the new millennium. While technology makes admirable progress against cyber-security problems, the problem is not one of technology alone. Cyber security is part of a framework that encompasses technological, economic and social issues. The availability of technological solutions needs to be supplemented by service providers accepting responsibility for deploying technologies efficiently. Deployment of solutions and assignment of responsibility today tend to focus on a network provider's accountability to its own customers. In the decentralized Internet, allocation of accountability for potential impact on a remote network is important. This research seeks to direct investments to minimize impact on destination networks by efficient allocation of incentives. Security threats render the Internet a risky environment, and insurance mechanisms can seek to enhance productive and secure use of the Internet by risk management. This project uses game theoretic models to study allocation of incentives among mail service providers to reduce global incidence of spam. This project will develop incentive and insurance mechanisms with the provision for certifying providers who voluntarily accept responsibility for damage to rest of the network, conduct empirical studies of the patterns of spam observed on Internet today for refining the analytical model, and experimentally test and validate the mechanisms and model. This research seeks to start an evolution of the Internet into an accountable and well-organized environment