ABSTRACT

As small and medium enterprises move toward cloud computing for their IT operations, they discover that securing their information assets is a challenge. A new set of providers offering fee-based security as a service (SECaaS) has emerged. The SECaaS market is still nascent, and important questions remain if these providers are to be successful. This research uses a system dynamics approach to shed light on the SECaaS market in the context of SECaaS costs, and security threat conditions. The results indicate that consumers are price sensitive but not threat sensitive, and have important implications for SECaaS providers and consumers.

摘要

随着中小型企业的 IT 运营转向云计算，他们发现保护其信息资产是一项挑战。一组新的提供基于费用的安全即服务 (SECaaS) 的提供商已经出现。SECaaS 市场仍处于初期阶段，如果这些提供商要成功，重要的问题仍然存在。本研究使用系统动力学方法在 SECaaS 成本和安全威胁条件的背景下阐明 SECaaS 市场。结果表明，消费者对价格敏感，但对威胁不敏感，对 SECaaS 提供商和消费者具有重要意义。