The Economics of Information Security and Privacy

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Böhme, Rainer (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Subjects: Computer science.; Computer security.; Data structures (Computer science).; Economics.; Management science.; Computer Science.; Data Structures, Cryptology and Information Theory.; Economics, general.; Systems and Data Security.

In the late 1990s, researchers began to grasp that the roots of many information security failures can be better explained with the language of economics than by pointing to instances of technical flaws. This led to a thriving new interdisciplinary research field combining economic and engineering i...