Communications of the ACM
Enabling Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace
Credit: Carl Pennypacker, UC-Berkeley
Bowdoin College professor Daniela Oliveira has developed a model to make the Internet safer by leveraging user input.
Conventional cybersecurity models employ an automated and rigid system, without user input, to determine the safety of an email address or a Web site. Oliveira's model involves users rating email addresses and Web sites, based on their knowledge of how trustworthy a source is. The model compiles the trust ratings to determine the trustworthiness of agents and sites on the Internet. The model also maintains the privacy of those who rate the email addresses and Web sites.
Oliveira has worked with a sociologist to improve access to trustworthy information for cancer-based networks by applying the cybersecurity model and incorporating user input when characterizing the trustworthiness of sources.
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