Abstract
This paper describes the origins of security economics. The birth of this thriving new discipline is sometimes credited to a talk I gave at ACSAC in December 2001, but the story is more complex. After sabbatical visits to Berkeley in 2001--2 to work with Hal Varian, we organised the first Workshop on the Economics of Information Security in June 2002. Since then the field has grown to encompass arguments over open versus proprietary systems, the econometrics of online crime, the behavioural economics of security and much else. It has started to have a significant impact on policy, with security-economics studies of cybercrime and infrastructure vulnerability being adopted as policy in the EU, while security economics PhDs have got influential jobs in the White House and elsewhere.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 28th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference |
| Place of Publication | New York, NY, USA |
| Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery, Inc |
| Pages | 139–144 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781450313124 |
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| Publication status | Published - 3 Dec 2012 |
| Event | 28th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC) 2012 - Orlando, United States Duration: 3 Dec 2012 → 7 Dec 2012 Conference number: 28 https://www.acsac.org/2012/ |
Publication series
| Name | ACSAC '12 |
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| Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery |
Conference
| Conference | 28th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC) 2012 |
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| Abbreviated title | ACSAC 2012 |
| Country/Territory | United States |
| City | Orlando |
| Period | 3/12/12 → 7/12/12 |
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Keywords / Materials (for Non-textual outputs)
- economics
- information security