[Infowarrior] - Fifth Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (WEIS 2006)

[Richard Forno]

The Fifth Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (WEIS 2006)
University of Cambridge, England
26-28 June 2006
Monday June 26
Session 1 0900-1030

http://weis2006.econinfosec.org/prog.html

Models and Measures for Correlation in Cyber-Insurance (paper)
Rainer Boehme and Gaurav Kataria

The Effect of Stock Spam on Financial Markets (paper)
Rainer Boehme and Thorsten Holz

The Economics of Digital Forensics (paper)
Tyler Moore
1030-1100: Tea
Session 2 1100-1230

Understanding and Influencing Attackers' Decisions: Implications for
Security Investment Strategies (paper)
Marco Cremonini and Dmitri Nizovtsev

On the Gordon & Loeb Model for Information Security Investment (paper)
Jan Willemson

Economics of Information Security Investment in the Case of Simultaneous
Attacks (paper)
C. Derrick Huang, Qing Hu and Ravi S. Behara
Session 3 1400-1530

Enterprise Information Security: Who should mange it and how? (paper)
Vineet Kumar, Rahul Telang and Tridas Mukhopadhyay

Hackers, Users, Information Security (paper)
I.P.L. Png, Candy Q. Tang and Qiu-Hong Wang

A Model for Opportunistic Network Exploits: The Case of P2P Worms (paper)
Michael Collins, Carrie Gates and Gaurav Kataria
1530-1600 Coffee
Session 4 1600-1730

Predictors of Home-Based Wireless Security (paper)
Matthew Hottell, Drew Carter and Matthew Deniszczuk

Proof of Work can Work (paper)
Debin Liu and L Jean Camp

The topology of covert conflict (paper)
Shishir Nagaraja and Ross Anderson
1730-1930 Drinks reception
Tuesday June 27
Session 1 0900-1030

Costs to the U.S. Economy of Information Infrastructure Failures: Estimates
from Field Studies and Economic Data (paper)
Scott Dynes, Eva Andrijicic and M Eric Johnson

The Potential for Underinvestment in Internet Security: Implications for
Regulatory Policy (paper)
Alfredo Garcia and Barry Horowitz

Bootstrapping the Adoption of Internet Security Protocols
Andy Ozment Stuart E. Schechter
1030-1100: Tea
Session 2 1100-1230

The Economic Impact of Regulatory Information Disclosure on Information
Security Investments, Competition, and Social Welfare (paper)
Anindya Ghose and Uday Rajan

Opt In Versus Opt Out: A Free-Entry Analysis of Privacy Policies (paper)
Jan Bouckaert and Hans Degryse

Reliable Usable Signaling to Defeat Masquerade Attacks (paper)
L Jean Camp
Session 3 1400-1530

Economics of Security Patch Management (paper)
Huseyin Cavusoglu, Hasan Cavusoglu and Jun Zhang

Emerging Economic Models for Vulnerability Research (paper)
Michael Sutton and Frank Nagle

Competitive and strategic effects in the timing of patch release (paper)
Ashish Arora, Christopher Forman, Anand Nandkumar1 and Rahul Telang
1530-1600 Coffee
Session 4 1600-1730

Private Sector Cyber Security Investment: An Empirical Analysis
Brent Rowe and Michael Gallaher

An Empirical Analysis of Security Investment in Countermeasures Based on an
Enterprise Survey in Japan (paper)
Wei Liu, Hideyuki Tanaka and Kanta Matsuura

Justifying Spam and E-mail Virus Security Investments: A Case Study (paper)
Hemantha Herath and Tejaswini Herath
2000 Workshop banquet, St John's College
Wednesday June 28
Session 1 0900-1030

The Economics of Mass Surveillance (paper)
George Danezis and Bettina Wittneben

Is There a Cost to Privacy Breaches? An Event Study (paper)
Alessandro Acquisti, Allan Friedman and Rahul Telang

Financial Privacy for Free? US Consumers' Response to FACTA (paper)
Alessandro Acquisti and Bin Zhang
1030-1100: Tea
Session 2 1100-1230

Anonymity Loves Company: Usability and the network effect (paper)
Roger Dingledine and Nick Mathewson

Collaborative Scheduling: Threats and Promises (paper)
Rachel Greenstadt and Michael Smith

Adverse Selection in Online 'Trust' Certifications (paper)
Benjamin Edelman
Close of workshop

WEIS 2006 is sponsored by the Institute for Information Infrastructure
Protection (I3P) and Microsoft Research.