Optimizing Investments in Security Countermeasures: A Practical Tool for Fixed Budgets

Authors:
Jonathan Caulkins;Eric D. Hough;Nancy R. Mead;Hassan Osman
Affiliations:
Carnegie Mellon University;Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center San Diego;Software Engineering Institute;Ernst & Young
Venue:
IEEE Security and Privacy
Year:
2007

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Abstract

As a software engineer or client, how much of your budget should you spend on software security mitigation for the applications and networks on which you depend? The authors introduce a novel way to optimize a combination of security countermeasures under fixed resources.