Network security and contagion

Network security and contagion

We develop a theoretical model of security investments in a network of interconnected agents. Network connections introduce the possibility of cascading failures due to an exogenous or endogenous attack depending on the profile of security investments by the agents. We provide a tractable decomposit...

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Main Authors: Acemoglu, K. Daron (Contributor), Malekian, Azarakhsh (Contributor), Koksal, Asuman E. (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier BV, 2018-12-17T17:51:23Z.
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