期刊
JOURNAL OF THE OPERATIONAL RESEARCH SOCIETY
卷 73, 期 4, 页码 716-740出版社
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/01605682.2020.1854631
关键词
Strategic hacker; competitive firm; industry characteristics; similarity of security technologies; decision analysis
资金
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [71801035, 71872037, 71901058, 71832001, 71801071]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [2232018H-07]
The study suggests that companies should consider reforming their business mode to reduce vulnerability rather than heavily investing in security protection. Different intentions of hackers lead to different behaviors; continuing effort is still a better strategy for companies even in intense competition. The technical similarity encourages hackers to attack while causing a free-riding problem for competitive firms.
The tendency of strategic hackers to attack specific industries brings new challenges for information security management. This paper examines the interaction between firms in a specific industry and a strategic hacker by considering industry-specific characteristics including the intrinsic vulnerability, intentions of the hacker, competition between firms, and similarity of security technologies. We find that firms in an overly dangerous industry should consider reforming their business mode to reduce the intrinsic vulnerability rather than investing heavily in security protection. Moreover, we distinguish the hacker as profit-seeking and fame-seeking and find that different intentions generate different hacker's behaviour. Furthermore, keep exerting effort is still a better strategy for the firms when the competition becomes more intense even the threat of the hacker reduces. Besides, the technical similarity enhances the hacker's incentive to exert attack effort while induces a free-riding problem for competitive firms. Accordingly, we introduce a social planner to regulate the security decisions of competitive firms, and identify that the supervision of a social planner could partly alleviate the free-riding behaviour, but will only be accepted by competitive firms when facing a less or highly competitive environment. Our results imply that introducing a social planner to enforce security protection may not be advisable for all industries. Finally, we extend our model to discuss two additional cases, including the case of sequential game and the case of asymmetric condition.
作者
我是这篇论文的作者
点击您的名字以认领此论文并将其添加到您的个人资料中。
推荐
暂无数据