• caglararli@hotmail.com
  • 05386281520

Progress in market approaches to software vulnerability disclosure?

Çağlar Arlı      -    13 Views

Progress in market approaches to software vulnerability disclosure?

In A Comparison of Market Approaches to Software Vulnerability Disclosure (2006), Rainer Böhme describes the profound role of economic "market failure" in the industry dynamics that hinder software security. He also describes 4 kinds of markets that can help:

  • Bug challenges, like payments by Mozilla and Google for security bugs
  • Vulnerability brokers, aka “vulnerability sharing circles”, e.g. CERT or iDefense
  • Exploit derivatives, an application of binary markets to security events
  • Cyber-insurance

The latter two seem to be the most promising. Have either of these ideas matured since then, and are they available anywhere?

See also

Update:

Update 2: I just ran across Tyler Moore's paper on misaligned incentives and information asymmetries, and getting ISPs to take more responsibility: Introducing the Economics of Cybersecurity: Principles and Policy Options (pdf) National Academies Press, 2010