L. Jean Camp and Stephen Lewis, Economics of Information Security (2004). Economics of Information Security applies economics not to generate breakthroughs in theoretical economics, but rather ...

Software security is an important concern for vendors, consumers, and regulators since attackers who exploit vulnerabilities can cause significant damage. In this brief paper, I discuss key themes in ...

Occasionally one reads a paper or a book that makes one sit up and take notice. Older readers may remember the excitement in 1991 when the National Research Council issued Computers at Risk: Safe ...

There was a workshop on the Economics of Information Security held at Cambridge in England last June. Studying the economics of information security is, to me, absurdly trivial. It is like studying ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. In today’s hyper-connected world, identity is now recognized as the cornerstone of modern ...

A large-scale study of password-protected Web sites revealed a lack of standards across the industry that harms end-user security, according to two researchers working at the University of Cambridge ...

The share price of software companies drops when security flaws are found in their products, according to the latest study. Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University in Pennsylvania found that a ...

A large percentage of Wi-Fi networks are "horribly insecure", according to researchers at Indiana University. In a study of almost 2,500 access points in Indianapolis, presented at the Workshop on the ...