Security-by-Experiment: Lessons from Responsible Deployment in Cyberspace

Security-by-Experiment: Lessons from Responsible Deployment in Cyberspace

Pieters, W. (TU Delft Energie and Industrie)
Hadziosmanovic, D. (TU Delft Information and Communication Technology)
Dechesne, F (External organisation)

2015

Conceiving new technologies as social experiments is a means to discuss responsible deployment of technologies that may have unknown and potentially harmful side-effects. Thus far, the uncertain outcomes addressed in the paradigm of new technologies as social experiments have been mostly safety-related, meaning that potential harm is caused by the design plus accidental events in the environment. In some domains, such as cyberspace, adversarial agents (attackers) may be at least as important when it comes to undesirable effects of deployed technologies. In such cases, conditions for responsible experimentation may need to be implemented differently, as attackers behave strategically rather than probabilistically. In this contribution, we outline how adversarial aspects are already taken into account in technology deployment in the field of cyber security, and what the paradigm of new technologies as social experiments can learn from this. In particular, we show the importance of adversarial roles in social experiments with new technologies.

Adversarial experiments
Cyber security
Empirical security
Responsible experimentation
Security-by-experiment
Social experiments

http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:9b8dd25e-eb2c-4efd-bb45-f3715c13debd

https://doi.org/10.1007/s11948-015-9648-y

1471-5546

Science & Engineering Ethics, 22 (3), 1-20

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© 2015 W. Pieters, D. Hadziosmanovic, F Dechesne