Managing Information Risk and the Economics of Security

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Johnson, M. Eric. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 2009.
• Subjects: Computer science.; Computer Communication Networks.; Data protection.; Data encryption (Computer science).; Economics.; Computer Science.; Systems and Data Security.; Economics/Management Science, general.; Data Encryption.; Economic Systems.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09762-6

The lifeblood of the global economy, information has become a source of growing risk as more firms maintain information online. With risks now fueled by sophisticated, organized, malicious groups, information security requires not only technology, but a clear understanding of potential risks, decisi...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Managing Information Risk and the Economics of Security
• Nonbanks and Risk in Retail Payments: EU and U.S.
• Security Economics and European Policy
• BORIS Business ORiented management of Information Security
• Productivity Space of Information Security in an Extension of the
• Gordon-Loeb's Investment Model
• Communicating the Economic Value of Security Investments: Value at
• Security Risk
• Modelling the Human and Technological Costs and Benefits of USB Memory
• Stick Security
• The Value of Escalation and Incentives in Managing Information Access
• Reinterpreting the Disclosure Debate for Web Infections
• The Impact of Incentives on Notice and Take-down
• Studying Malicious Websites and the Underground Economy on the Chinese
• Web
• Botnet Economics: Uncertainty Matters
• Cyber Insurance as an Incentive for Internet Security
• Conformity or Diversity: Social Implications of Transparency in Personal
• Data Processing
• Is Distributed Trust More Trustworthy?
• Index.