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Economics of Information Security and Privacy

  • Introduces the latest techniques for a range of disciplines required to understand the key concepts for economics of information security.

  • Designed for managers, policy makers, and researchers working in the related fields of economics of information security.

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Table of contents (15 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages 1-17
  2. Introduction and Overview

    • Tyler Moore, David Pym, Christos Ioannidis
    Pages 1-7
  3. The Price of Uncertainty in Security Games

    • Jens Grossklags, Benjamin Johnson, Nicolas Christin
    Pages 9-32
  4. Security Economics and Critical National Infrastructure

    • Ross Anderson, Shailendra Fuloria
    Pages 55-66
  5. Modeling the Security Ecosystem - The Dynamics of (In)Security

    • Stefan Frei, Dominik Schatzmann, Bernhard Plattner, Brian Trammell
    Pages 79-106
  6. Modeling the Economic Incentives of DDoS Attacks: Femtocell Case Study

    • Vicente Segura, Javier Lahuerta
    Pages 107-119
  7. The Privacy Jungle:On the Market for Data Protection in Social Networks

    • Joseph Bonneau, Sören Preibusch
    Pages 121-167
  8. Valuating Privacy with Option Pricing Theory

    • Stefan Berthold, Rainer Böhme
    Pages 187-209
  9. Competitive Cyber-Insurance and Internet Security

    • Nikhil Shetty, Galina Schwartz, Mark Felegyhazi, Jean Walrand
    Pages 229-247
  10. Potential Rating Indicators for Cyberinsurance: An Exploratory Qualitative Study

    • Frank Innerhofer-Oberperfler, Ruth Breu
    Pages 249-278
  11. The Risk of Risk Analysis And its Relation to the Economics of Insider Threats

    • Christian W. Probst, Jeffrey Hunker
    Pages 279-299
  12. Competition, Speculative Risks, and IT Security Outsourcing

    • Asunur Cezar, Huseyin Cavusoglu, Srinivasan Raghunathan
    Pages 301-320

About this book

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.

In 2009, WEIS was held in London, at UCL, a constituent college of the University of London. Economics of Information Security and Privacy includes chapters presented at WEIS 2009, having been carefully reviewed by a program committee composed of leading researchers. Topics covered include identity theft, modeling uncertainty's effects, future directions in the economics of information security, economics of privacy, options, misaligned incentives in systems, cyber-insurance, and modeling security dynamics.

Economics of Information Security and Privacy is designed for managers, policy makers, and researchers working in the related fields of economics of information security. Advanced-level students focusing on computer science, business management and economics will find this book valuable as a reference.

Editors and Affiliations

  • , Center for Research on Computation, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA

    Tyler Moore

  • , King's College, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom

    David Pym

  • , Department of Economics, University of Bath, Bath, United Kingdom

    Christos Ioannidis

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