Welcome to the Economics of Information Security Page

• SPIMACS Security & Privacy In Medical And Home Care is scheduled adjacent to ACM CCS 2009.
  
  
• A related call for papers for a special issue of the Information Frontiers Journal on Security and Management Technologies for Protecting Against Data Leakage in available in PDF at http://www.som.buffalo.edu/isinterface/ISFrontiers/forthcoming1/InfoSec09-SI-CFP.pdf The deadline is August 14, 2009.
  
  
• Extraordinary Circumstances: Combating Fraud and Corruption in Hard Times is not an academic conference but looks of interest to this community.
  
  
• The Gordon Prize in Managing Cybersecurity Resources is a $1,000 prize for the best essay on cybersecurity risks. Essays are due each August 1, guidelines at www.rhsmith.umd.edu/news/stories/2008/pdfs/GordonPrizeSubmissionGuidelines.pdf
  
  
• Ross Anderson, Bruce Schneier and Alessandro Acquisti, following last year's success in 2008, organized SHB 2009.
  
  
• For those entering research related to SHB, here is an excellent essay on the difficulties of human subjects research in this Commentary on Research on New Security Indicators, which provides general critiques that are broadly applicable in the context of a specific work.
  
  
• The call for papers from the 14th Annual Financial Cryptography is available at http://fc10.ifca.ai/ is available. Papers due Sept. 15th.
  
  
• MetricCon 4.0 Call for Participation, for the event in Toronto in August with Usenix Security.
  
  
• Net Trust is a mechanisms for generating economic signals that will asssit users in identification of resource type.
  
  
• Ross Anderson's Economics of Information Security Page
  
  
• Alessando Acquisti's Economics of Information Privacy Page