Incentivisation of Outsourced Network Testing: View from Platform Perspective

Sultan Alasmari, Weichao Wang, Yu Wang

2022

Abstract

With the development of Security as a Service (SAAS), many companies outsource their network security functionality to security service providers. To guarantee the execution and quality of such services, a third party can help the end customer verify the enforcement of the security service level agreement (SSLA). Since individual testers often lack the capability and trustworthiness to attract many customers, a platform is needed to bridge the gap between the customers and the testers. In this paper, we investigate the incentivisation of outsourced network testing from the platform perspective. We first define the problem of cost/benefit model of the platform and identify the restriction factors. We describe multiple testing task assignment scenarios and prove that they are NP problems. Next we design heuristic algorithms for the problem. Our simulation results examine the performance of the heuristic approaches.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Alasmari S., Wang W. and Wang Y. (2022). Incentivisation of Outsourced Network Testing: View from Platform Perspective. In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy - Volume 1: ICISSP, ISBN 978-989-758-553-1, pages 499-506. DOI: 10.5220/0010897300003120

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icissp22,
author={Sultan Alasmari and Weichao Wang and Yu Wang},
title={Incentivisation of Outsourced Network Testing: View from Platform Perspective},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy - Volume 1: ICISSP,},
year={2022},
pages={499-506},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0010897300003120},
isbn={978-989-758-553-1},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy - Volume 1: ICISSP,
TI - Incentivisation of Outsourced Network Testing: View from Platform Perspective
SN - 978-989-758-553-1
AU - Alasmari S.
AU - Wang W.
AU - Wang Y.
PY - 2022
SP - 499
EP - 506
DO - 10.5220/0010897300003120