The Case against Commercial Antivirus Software¶
Jardine, E. (2020). The Case against Commercial Antivirus Software: Risk Homeostasis and Information Problems in Cybersecurity. Risk Analysis, 40(8), 1571-1588.
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Primes¶
- Anticipatory Neutralization
- The Peltzman discipline of expecting users to re-optimise under safety improvements transfers to cyber-defence design, where users granted two-factor authentication may relax password hygiene, partially offsetting the security gain;
Supported in partVerified against the publisher's abstract
Jardine's abstract supplies the general risk-compensation frame in cybersecurity — antivirus users report more incidents — but says nothing about two-factor authentication or password hygiene.
“(1) commercial AV users are significantly more likely to self‐report a cybersecurity event in the past year than nonusers, even after correcting for potential reverse causality and informational mechanisms; (2) nonusers become somewhat less likely to self‐report a cybersecurity event as the perceived riskiness of various e‐mail‐based behaviors increases, while commercial AV users do not”
- The Peltzman discipline of expecting users to re-optimise under safety improvements transfers to cyber-defence design, where users granted two-factor authentication may relax password hygiene, partially offsetting the security gain;
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