Economics of Information Security and Privacy

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Moore, Tyler. (Editor), Pym, David. (Editor), Ioannidis, Christos. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2010.
• Edition: 1.
• Subjects: Computer science.; Computer network architectures.; Computer Communication Networks.; Data protection.; Data structures (Computer science).; Economics.; Computer Science.; Systems and Data Security.; Economics/Management Science, general.; Data Structures, Cryptology and Information Theory.; Computer Systems Organization and Communication Networks.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6967-5

The Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (WEIS) is the leading forum for interdisciplinary research and scholarship on information security and privacy, combining ideas, techniques, and expertise from the fields of economics, social science, business, law, policy, and computer science....

Table of Contents:

• Introduction and Overview
• The Iterated Weakest Link - A Model of Adaptive Security Investment
• The Price of Uncertainty in Security Games
• Nobody Sells Gold for the Price of Silver: Dishonesty, Uncertainty and the Underground Economy
• The Policy Maker's Anguish: regulating personal data behaviour between paradoxes and dilemmas
• The Privacy Jungle: On the Market for Data Protection in Social Networks
• Valuating Privacy with Option Pricing Theory
• Security Economics and Critical National Infrastructure
• Internet Multi-Homing Problems: Explanations from Economics
• The Risk of Risk Analysis-And its relation to the Economics of Insider Threats
• Competitive Cyber-Insurance and Internet Security
• Potential Rating Indicators for Cyberinsurance: An Exploratory Qualitative Study
• Modeling the economic incentives of DDoS attacks: femtocell case study
• Modelling the Security Ecosystem- The Dynamics of (In)Security.