Welcome to the Economics of Information Security Page

• CALL FOR PAPERS for the Wireless Technologies: Enabling Innovation and Economic Growth sponsored by the Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy
  
  
• Ross Anderson, Bruce Schneier, Alessandro Acquisti, and George Loewenstein organized the Interdisciplinary Workshop on Security and Human Behaviour (SHB 2008). I posted my notes at http://www.ljean.com/files/SHBnotes.html
  
  
• If you missed WEIS 2008 there is a weak substitute in the available papers. Network World is writing an excellent series on the workshop, beginning with an overview, then addressing data breach laws and next week, IPv6.
  
  
• The program of the Telecommunications Policy Research Conference contains a greatly increased amount of economics of security work. Registration is open!
  
  
• After Ross' talk last year, there is a renewed interest in economics of security at the Fifth bi-annual Conference on The Economics of the Software and Internet Industries. Papers are due Spet. 30 2008.
  
  
• The program for the eCrime Researchers Summit will shortly be available. This is the 2008 flagship event of the Anti-Phishing Working Group.
  
  
• MiniMetricon presentations from the event on 7 April 2008 in San Francisco are available at the MiniMetricon 2.5 page at www.SecurityMetrics.org
  
  
• The call for papers from the 8th Annual Financial Cryptography is available at http://fc09.ifca.ai/ is available. Papers due Oct. 17th.
  
  
• 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
  
  
• Find out more about the book Economics of Information Security edited by Jean Camp and Stephen Lewis.