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Presents results from new interdisciplinary research field
Contributing authors include leading academic and industrial researchers
Valuable for researchers and practitioners in computer science, engineering, economics, social science, and behavioral science
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Management of Information Security
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Front Matter
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Economics of Information Security
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Front Matter
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Economics of Cybercrime
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Front Matter
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About this book
In the late 1990s, researchers began to grasp that the roots of many information security failures can be better explained with the language of economics than by pointing to instances of technical flaws. This led to a thriving new interdisciplinary research field combining economic and engineering insights, measurement approaches and methodologies to ask fundamental questions concerning the viability of a free and open information society. While economics and information security comprise the nucleus of an academic movement that quickly drew the attention of thinktanks, industry, and governments, the field has expanded to surrounding areas such as management of information security, privacy, and, more recently, cybercrime, all studied from an interdisciplinary angle by combining methods from microeconomics, econometrics, qualitative social sciences, behavioral sciences, and experimental economics.
This book is structured in four parts, reflecting the main areas: management of information security, economics of information security, economics of privacy, and economics of cybercrime. Each individual contribution documents, discusses, and advances the state of the art concerning its specific research questions. It will be of value to academics and practitioners in the related fields.
Reviews
From the book reviews:
“The first section focuses on information security management, while the three remaining sections focus on the economics of information security, privacy, and cybercrime, respectively. … it contains useful data for the chief information security or privacy officer articulating the economic rationale for proposed information security or privacy initiatives to a CFO or Board.” (Lee Imrey, Computing Reviews, September, 2014)Editors and Affiliations
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Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Münster, Germany
Rainer Böhme
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Economics of Information Security and Privacy
Editors: Rainer Böhme
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39498-0
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-39497-3Published: 11 December 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-51272-2Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-39498-0Published: 29 November 2013
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 321
Number of Illustrations: 57 b/w illustrations
Topics: Data Structures and Information Theory, Economics, general, Systems and Data Security