Crowdsourced cybersecurity innovation
The case of the Pentagon’s vulnerability reward program
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6149261 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Akemi Takeoka Chatfield (0000-0001-9395-1873, University of Wollongong), Christopher G Reddick (0000-0002-3882-5302, The University of Texas at San Antonio, corresponding author) |
| Editors | Soon Ae Chun, Nabil R Adam (0000-0002-9931-9972), Beth Noveck |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 177-194 |
| Publication date | 2018-05-11 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Information Polity (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1875-8754 • E-ISSN: 1570-1255 |
| Publisher | IOS Press (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.3233/ip-170058 |
| OpenAlex | W2801839096 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 23 |
The U.S. federal government and its agencies face increasingly sophisticated and persistent cyberattacks from black hat hackers who breach cybersecurity for malicious purposes or for personal gain. With the rise of malicious attacks that caused untold financial damage and substantial reputational d amage, private-sector high-tech firms such as Google, Microsoft and Yahoo adopted an innovative practice known as vulnerability reward program (VRP) or bug bounty program which crowdsources software bug detection from the cybersecurity community. In an alignment with the 2016 U.S. Cybersecurity National Action Plan, the Department of Defense adopted a pilot VRP in 2016. We use the Pentagon's VRP case to examine how it fits with the national cybersecurity policy. Our case study results show the feasibility of the government adoption and implementation of the innovative concept of VRP to enhance the government cybersecurity posture as well as the need to develop sophisticated cybersecurity policy and enhanced cybersecurity capability
Business · Computer security · Data breach · Government (linguistics · Hacker · Pentagon · Political science · Vulnerability (computing · Computer Science · E-Government and Public Services · Information and Cyber Security · Law · Privacy, Security, and Data Protection
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