Communications of the ACM
Communications of the ACM
A BGP-based mechanism for lowest-cost routing
Proceedings of the twenty-first annual symposium on Principles of distributed computing
Liability and Computer Security: Nine Principles
ESORICS '94 Proceedings of the Third European Symposium on Research in Computer Security
Why Information Security is Hard-An Economic Perspective
ACSAC '01 Proceedings of the 17th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference
Milk or wine: does software security improve with age?
USENIX-SS'06 Proceedings of the 15th conference on USENIX Security Symposium - Volume 15
Security Engineering: A Guide to Building Dependable Distributed Systems
Security Engineering: A Guide to Building Dependable Distributed Systems
Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Security protocols
The Oxford Handbook of the Digital Economy
The Oxford Handbook of the Digital Economy
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This paper describes the origins of security economics. The birth of this thriving new discipline is sometimes credited to a talk I gave at ACSAC in December 2001, but the story is more complex. After sabbatical visits to Berkeley in 2001--2 to work with Hal Varian, we organised the first Workshop on the Economics of Information Security in June 2002. Since then the field has grown to encompass arguments over open versus proprietary systems, the econometrics of online crime, the behavioural economics of security and much else. It has started to have a significant impact on policy, with security-economics studies of cybercrime and infrastructure vulnerability being adopted as policy in the EU, while security economics PhDs have got influential jobs in the White House and elsewhere.