Cost-Benefit Analysis Toward Designing Efficient Education Programs for Household Security

N'guessan Yves-Roland Douha Bernard Ousmane Sane Masahiro Sasabe Doudou Fall Yuzo Taenaka Youki Kadobayashi

In Proc. of International Conference on Emerging Security Information, Systems and Technologies, 2021

Abstract

The human factor is still a crucial issue in the security chain. People who will live in a smart home might be exposed to many cyber threats due to the remaining lack of IoT device security. Cybersecurity awareness training could help households to become more resilient to face cyberattacks. However, the financial costs of training programs and the significant amount of time needed to notice security countermeasures could refrain many smart-home users from engaging in cybersecurity education. In this paper, we propose a game-theoretic approach to analyze the security investment cost-benefit of households. Our numerical results show that the increase of quality of services accessible in a smart home and the security rewards for noticing security countermeasures compared to the potential impacts of cyberattacks will increase the payoffs of households and reinforce the security behaviors. Our results also emphasize the urgent need to address human security toward a more resilient smart home.

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    N'guessan Yves-Roland Douha, Bernard Ousmane Sane, Masahiro Sasabe, Doudou Fall, Yuzo Taenaka, Youki Kadobayashi, Cost-Benefit Analysis Toward Designing Efficient Education Programs for Household Security, Proc. of International Conference on Emerging Security Information, Systems and Technologies, pp.59-68, November 2021.

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    @inproceedings{douha21CostBenefitAnalysisDesigning,
    author = "Douha, N'guessan Yves-Roland and Sane, Bernard Ousmane and Sasabe, Masahiro and Fall, Doudou and Taenaka, Yuzo and Kadobayashi, Youki",
    title = "Cost-{{Benefit Analysis Toward Designing Efficient Education Programs}} for {{Household Security}}",
    booktitle = "Proc. of {{International Conference}} on {{Emerging Security Information}}, {{Systems}} and {{Technologies}}",
    year = "2021",
    month = "November",
    pages = "59--68"
}