Economics and Information Security

I would like to bring your attention to two conferences. The Workshop on Economics and Information Security is now in its fifth year. The next one will be held on June 26-28 in Cambridge (England, not Massachusetts). The paper selections have been announced, and it looks like a great conference.

The The Workshop on the Economics of Securing the Information Infrastructure will be held on October 23-24 in Washington, DC. This is a new workshop, and papers are still being solicited.

WEIS is currently my favorite security conference. I think that economics has a lot to teach computer security, and it is very interesting to get economists, lawyers, and computer security experts in the same room talking about issues.

I am on the program committee for both WEIS and WESII.

Tags: computer security, economics of security, security conferences

Posted on May 16, 2006 at 3:10 PM • 8 Comments

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Saqib Ali • May 16, 2006 4:30 PM

Shameless plug:
This Google Calendar was compiled by Rajesh and includes many Security Related events globally.

http://www.xml-dev.com/lurker/message/20060509.162111.9ec4659c.en.html

It is an excellect addition to your Google Calendar.

Nicholas Weaver • May 16, 2006 4:35 PM

If it wasn’t in Cambridge (not MA), I’d be sorely tempted to attend. It was really productive the one I went to.

Chris Walsh • May 16, 2006 5:00 PM

Missed a ‘=’ in the WESII html, Bruce.

http://wesii.econinfosec.org/CFP.txt

Pedant • May 17, 2006 2:30 AM

Or indeed an ‘=’

Richard Braakman • May 17, 2006 3:51 AM

Is our pedant claiming that ‘=’ is a vowel? 🙂

Chris Walsh • May 17, 2006 10:19 AM

@Pedant: You left off an ‘.’.

:^)

Taneli Huuskonen • May 17, 2006 11:33 AM

@Chris Walsh:

Lemme guess. “A double hyphen” and “an end-of-sentence marker?”

@Richard Braakman:

Just in case you’re genuinely wondering: ‘=’ is called “an equal sign” or “an equals sign”.

ITDefPat • May 18, 2006 8:43 AM

Darn! And I’m touring England only a couple days after the conference!

I would be interested in seeing the papers… Curious to see how the mission statement is phrased . . . combining “economics” and “infosec” has various implications.

BTW, is rajesh’s calendar providing RSS feeds?

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