Next year’s Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (WEIS 2014) will be at Penn State on June 23–24. Submissions are due a week from today, at the end of February. It will be fascinating to see what effects the Snowden revelations will have on the community’s thinking. Get writing!
Next year’s Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (WEIS 2014) will be at Penn State on June 23–24. The call for papers is now out; papers are due by the end of February. It will be fascinating to see what effects the Snowden revelations will have on the community’s thinking about security standards and … Continue reading WEIS 2014 call for papers
The Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (WEIS) is the leading forum for interdisciplinary scholarship on information security, combining expertise from the fields of economics, social science, business, law, policy and computer science. Prior workshops have explored the role of incentives between attackers and defenders, identified market failures dogging Internet security, and assessed investments … Continue reading Call for papers: WEIS 2010 — Submissions due next week
I’m at the 2009 Workshop on the Economics of Information Security at UCL in London. I’ll be liveblogging the event in followups to this post.
The Fifth Annual Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (WEIS) is coming to Cambridge on June 26-28. WEIS topics include the interaction of networks with crime and conflict; the economics of bugs; the dependability of open source and free software; liability and insurance; reputation; privacy; risk perception; the economics of DRM and trusted computing; … Continue reading WEIS 2006
The Cambridge Cybercrime Centre‘s eight one day conference on cybercrime was held on Monday, 23rd June 2025, which marked 10 years of the Centre. Similar to previous “liveblog” coverage of conferences and workshops on Light Blue Touchpaper, here is a “liveblog”-style overview of the talks at this year’s conference. Sunoo Park — Legal Risks of … Continue reading Cambridge Cybercrime Conference 2025 – Liveblog
The Cambridge Cybercrime Centre‘s seventh one day conference on cybercrime was held on Monday, 10th June 2024. Similar to previous “liveblog” coverage of conferences and workshops on Light Blue Touchpaper, here is a “liveblog”-style overview of the talks at this year’s conference. L. Jean Camp – Global Cyber Resilience Using a Public Health Model of … Continue reading Cambridge Cybercrime Conference 2024 – Liveblog
I was delighted by two essays by Anton Howes on The Replication Crisis in History Open History. We computerists have long had an open culture: we make our publications open, as well as sharing the software we write and the data we analyse. My work on security economics and security psychology has taught me that … Continue reading Extending transparency, and happy birthday to the archive
WEIS 2023, the 22nd Workshop on the Economics of Information Security, will be held in Geneva from July 5-7, with a theme of Digital Sovereignty. We now have a list of sixteen accepted papers; there will also be three invited speakers, ten posters, and ten challenges for a Digital Sovereignty Hack on July 7-8. The … Continue reading 2023 Workshop on the Economics of Information Security
In our latest paper, we propose a better way of analysing cybercrime. Crime has been moving online, like everything else, for the past 25 years, and for the past decade or so it’s accounted for more than half of all property crimes in developed countries. Criminologists have tried to apply their traditional tools and methods … Continue reading Cybercrime gangs as tech startups