-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] Econmics and Information Security 2003 - Final Call for Papers Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 14:18:37 +0000 From: Ross Anderson Ross.Anderson@cl.cam.ac.uk To: tccc@cs.columbia.edu

Economics and Information Security

Second Annual Workshop

May 29-30, University of Maryland

http://www.cpppe.umd.edu/rhsmith3/index.html

Do we spend enough on keeping `hackers' out of our computer systems? Do we not spend enough? Or do we spend too much? For that matter, do we spend too little on the police and the army, or too much? And do we spend our security budgets on the right things?

The economics of security is a rapidly growing field of research. More and more people are coming to realise that security failures are often due to perverse incentives rather than to the lack of suitable technical protection mechanisms. (Indeed, the former often explain the latter.) While much recent research has been on `cyberspace' security issues - from hacking through fraud to copyright policy - the field is expanding to throw light on `everyday' security issues at one end, and to provide new insights and new problems for theoretical computer scientists and `normal' economists at the other. In the commercial world, as in the world of diplomacy, there can be complex linkages between security arguments and economic ends.

Program committee:

Ross Anderson (program co-chair) (Cambridge University) Larry Gordon (program co-chair) (University of Maryland) Marty Loeb (general chair) (University of Maryland) Bruce Schneier (Counterpane) Jean Camp (Harvard) Doug Tygar (UC Berkeley) Li Gong (Sun Microsystems) Andrew Odlyzko (University of Minnesota) Hal Varian (UC Berkeley)

If you would like to present a paper at the Workshop, please submit a detailed abstract (PDF format perferred) to Dr. Martin P. Loeb, General Chair by e-mail at mloeb@rhsmith.umd.edu by March 15, 2003.

Last year's proceedings are available at:

http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/resources/affiliates/workshops/econsecurity/

More information at:

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