Security Economics

This module explores security economics, focusing on the economic aspects of cybersecurity, including the cost-benefit analysis of security measures, the impact of cyber threats on economic stability, and the incentives driving security decisions.

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Wondracek, Gilbert, Thorsten Holz, Christian Platzer, E. Kirda, and Christopher Krügel. “Is the Internet for Porn? An Insight Into the Online Adult Industry,” 2010.

https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Is-the-Internet-for-Porn-An-Insight-Into-the-Online-Wondracek-Holz/943fe422f1e1b8e863be7c9496a9a9c3a63f2ecd

Anderson, Ross, Chris Barton, Rainer Böhme, Richard Clayton, Carlos Gañán, Tom Grasso, Michael Levi, Tyler Moore, and Marie Vasek. “Measuring the Changing Cost of Cybercrime.” Boston, 2019.

https://weis2019.econinfosec.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2019/05/WEIS_2019_paper_25.pdf

Vasek, Marie, and Tyler Moore. “There’s No Free Lunch, Even Using Bitcoin: Tracking the Popularity and Profits of Virtual Currency Scams.” In Financial Cryptography and Data Security, edited by Rainer Böhme and Tatsuaki Okamoto, 44–61. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2015.

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-47854-7_4

Eeten, Michel J. G. van, Johannes M. Bauer, Hadi Asghari, and Shirin Tabatabaie. “The Role of Internet Service Providers in Botnet Mitigation: An Empirical Analysis Based on Spam Data.” Paris: OECD, November 12, 2010.

https://doi.org/10.1787/5km4k7m9n3vj-en

Anderson, Ross, and Tyler Moore. “Information Security: Where Computer Science, Economics and Psychology Meet.” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 367, no. 1898 (July 13, 2009): 2717–27.

https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2009.0027