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IEEEARES
2006
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Defense trees for economic evaluation of security investments
In this paper we present a mixed qualitative and quantitative approach for evaluation of Information Technology (IT) security investments. For this purpose, we model security scen...
Stefano Bistarelli, Fabio Fioravanti, Pamela Peret...
IEEEARES
2006
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Fair Trading of Information: A Proposal for the Economics of Peer-to-Peer Systems
A P2P currency can be a powerful tool for promoting exchanges in a trusted way that make use of under-utilized resources both in computer networks and in real life. There are thre...
Kenji Saito, Eiichi Morino, Jun Murai
FC
2003
Springer
125views Cryptology» more  FC 2003»
13 years 10 months ago
Economics, Psychology, and Sociology of Security
Security is not an isolated good, but just one component of a complicated economy. That imposes limitations on how effective it can be. The interactions of human society and human...
Andrew M. Odlyzko
HICSS
2008
IEEE
88views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2008»
13 years 11 months ago
The Deterrent and Displacement Effects of Information Security Enforcement: International Evidence
Abstract: We adapt the event study methodology from research in financial economics to study the impact of government enforcement and economic opportunities on information security...
Ivan P. L. Png, Chen-Yu Wang, Qiu-Hong Wang
WWW
2008
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Secure or insure?: a game-theoretic analysis of information security games
Despite general awareness of the importance of keeping one's system secure, and widespread availability of consumer security technologies, actual investment in security remai...
Jens Grossklags, Nicolas Christin, John Chuang