Section 9.7. To Learn More


9.7. To Learn More

Because cybersecurity economics is a nascent field, many of the new results are reported at conferences rather than in journals. There are several conferences at which economics issues are discussed. The Workshop on the Economics of Information Security is held every year. The proceedings are available on the web (the 2006 proceedings are at http://weis2006.econinfosec.org), and some of the best papers from the earliest workshops are included in Camp and Lewis [CAM04]. Economics is becoming relevant to the iTrust conferences, at which researchers examine the role of trust in Internet business relationships. Other conferences at which economics is often discussed are the Conference on Privacy, Security, and Trust (held each year in Canada); the Financial Cryptography conference (organized by the International Financial Cryptography Association); and the CACR Information Security Workshop.

IEEE Security and Privacy magazine has had two relevant special issues: one in January 2005 on the economics of information security and another in May 2007 on managing security. Communications of the ACM often has articles about economics, as do many of the security-related publications.

Ross Anderson's web page on economics and security, at http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/econsec.html, is the best place to start reading if you are interested in this topic. He has pointers to major conferences, papers, books, and web sites. Alessandro Acquisti's web site is also useful, particularly in pointing to papers about economics and privacy: http://www.heinz.cmu.edu/~acquisti/economics-privacy.htm.




Security in Computing
Security in Computing, 4th Edition
ISBN: 0132390779
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2006
Pages: 171

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