CAREER: Securing Off-premise Digital Services in the Presence of Strategic Incentives

职业：在战略激励的情况下确保场外数字服务的安全

• 批准号: 2337338
• 负责人: Jiasun Li
• 金额: $ 71.17万
• 依托单位: George Mason University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2024-03-01 至 2029-02-28
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2337338&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CAREER; Securing; Off; premise; Digital

The past decade has witnessed significant growth in both cloud and decentralized computing, whereby data and services either live on remote servers or are distributed across many individual devices. Both models raise similar security concerns: As clients lack full control over the service process, they need to make sure that service providers have the right economic incentives to not misbehave. Since the predominant framework in cybersecurity has been motivated by traditional in-house computing, our current thinking about cybersecurity often does not adequately emphasize economic incentives. This project is thus conducting interdisciplinary research to analyze the well-functioning of cyberinfrastructure in the presence of incentive issues. The project aims to enable a more diversified and robust infrastructure; improve digital service efficiency for economic competitiveness; foster competition in digital services provision with technology; bring frontier STEM topics to a broader audience including economists, business researchers, and the general public; and develop education materials to bridge the gap between tech and business students. With the overall objective to enrich the existing paradigm for cybersecurity analysis from a cross-disciplinary perspective, the project team is studying several specific topics under the theme, including the principal-agent frictions between cloud clients and providers, and how to deal with it using both contract theory and recent advances in cryptography, the long-term sustainability of decentralized systems featuring interactions among strategic participants as well as Byzantine faults, and the potential of using results from the first two thrusts to organize a more efficient, fair, and inclusive digital economy. Within these analyses, the project is also illuminating several recent cryptographic breakthroughs for business/economics researchers. By raising awareness, the project team aims to encourage critical assessments of the economic and societal benefits associated with these advances and offer a fresh perspective to guide their further development.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

在过去的十年中，云和分散计算都有显着的增长，从而可以在远程服务器上使用数据和服务，或者分布在许多单个设备上。两种模型都引起了类似的安全问题：由于客户对服务过程缺乏完全控制，因此他们需要确保服务提供商具有正确的经济激励措施，以免行为不良。由于网络安全的主要框架是出于传统内部计算的激励，因此我们目前对网络安全的思想通常并不能充分强调经济激励措施。因此，该项目正在进行跨学科研究，以分析在存在激励问题的情况下网络基础设施的良好功能。该项目旨在实现更加多元化和强大的基础设施。提高数字服务效率以提高经济竞争力；通过技术促进数字服务竞争；将边境STEM主题带给包括经济学家，商业研究人员和公众在内的更广泛的受众；并开发教育材料以弥合技术和商学院学生之间的差距。 从跨学科的角度来丰富用于网络安全分析的现有范式的总体目标，项目团队正在研究该主题下的几个特定主题，包括云客户和提供者之间的主要代理摩擦，以及如何使用Crypography和Craging的长期互动效果，构成型的差异，并在其上既有质量的互动，又有战略性的互动率，以及如何处理它，如何处理它从前两个推力组织，可以组织一个更高效，公平和包容的数字经济。在这些分析中，该项目还阐明了最近对商业/经济学研究人员最近的加密突破。通过提高知名度，该项目团队旨在鼓励对与这些进步相关的经济和社会利益进行批判性评估，并提供了新的观点来指导其进一步的发展。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是通过基金会的知识分子优点和广泛影响的评估来评估值得支持的。