Information security as a credence good

• Main Authors: KE, Ping Fan, HUI, Kai-Lung, YUE, Wei Thoo
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2013
• Subjects: Information security outsourcing; credence good; interdependency risks; Information Security
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/4761; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/5764/viewcontent/usec13_submission_14__1_.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

With increasing use of information systems, many organizations are outsourcing information security protection to a managed security service provider (MSSP). However, diagnosing the risk of an information system requires special expertise, which could be costly and difficult to acquire. The MSSP may...