Someone to watch over me

  • Authors:
  • Heather Richter Lipford;Mary Ellen Zurko

  • Affiliations:
  • UNC Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, USA;Cisco Systems, Boxborough, MA, USA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2012 workshop on New security paradigms
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Traditional security mechanisms are part of a larger socio-technical system involving the people and organizations that use them. Yet, those security mechanisms rarely take this social context and social processes into account. In this paper we propose to make security more social, by integrating community oversight into security mechanisms. Like a neighborhood watch, community oversight can provide additional information as more people are able to detect anomalies and problems, as well as foster greater awareness and social norms of security-related behaviors. We describe this new paradigm, several scenarios of use, and the sets of issues involved in implementing this approach.