economics

This page is under construction. We will shortly be looking at writing about the extent of online crime and the cost of security in cyberspace. The page will also highlight statistics about the prevalence and impact of particular online offences.

In the interim, for points of entry into the literature about the economics of security see

• Ross Anderson's 2001 Why Information Security is Hard: An Economic Perspective (PDF) - his site has more detailed pointers
• the 2002 Berkeley Workshop on Economics & Information Security (here)
• Lawrence Gordon & Martin Loeb's 'The Economics of Information Security Investment' in Economics of Information Security (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic 2004) edited by L Jean Camp & Stephen Lewis
• Kenneth Soo's 99 page thesis (PDF) on How Much is Enough: A Risk-Management Approach to Computer Security
• Robert Hahn & Anne Layne-Farrar's 2006 The Law and Economics of Software Security (PDF)
• a field study on the cost to the US economy of information infrastructure failures (PDF)
• Economic barriers to adopting new security protocols (PDF)

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