Ross Anderson on WEIS 2006, the fifth Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (WEIS 2006)
Inserito da Agatino Grillo il Lun, 2006-06-12 06:45
English | Giugno 2006 | Privacy | Security
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(Italian version)
IsacaRoma: Hello, Professor Anderson and thanks for speaking to us. Could you tell us about the Fifth Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (WEIS 2006) ?
Ross Anderson: The Workshop on Economics and Information Security is main annual event for people interested in the interaction between economics and security. It is being held in Cambridge, England, from June 26-28. The economics of security is a hot and rapidly growing field of research. More and more people are coming to realise that security failures are often due to perverse incentives rather than to the lack of suitable technical protection mechanisms. (Indeed, the former often explain the latter.) Often the people who are in a position to defend a system don't suffer the costs of failure, so they become lazy and careless. While much recent research has been on “cyberspace” secury issues - from hacking through fraud to copyright policy - it is expanding to throw light on “everyday” security issues at one end (such as whether we spend too much or too little on police and on insurance) and to provide new insights and new problems for theoretical computer scientists and “normal” economists at the other. In the commercial world, as in the world of diplomacy, there can be complex linkages between security arguments and economic ends.
IR: What about the programme?
RA: The preliminary programme is available here
IR: Other?
RA: WEIS 2006 is sponsored by the Institute for Information Infrastructure Protection (I3P), Microsoft Research and the Foundation for Information Policy Research. Finally, WEIS is co-located with the Sixth Workshop on Privacy Enhancing Technologies which brings together anonymity and privacy experts from around the world to discuss recent advances and new perspectives in privacy for the Internet and other communication networks.
IR: Thanks Professor.
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IsacaRoma: Hello, Professor Anderson and thanks for speaking to us. Could you tell us about the Fifth Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (WEIS 2006) ?
Ross Anderson: The Workshop on Economics and Information Security is main annual event for people interested in the interaction between economics and security. It is being held in Cambridge, England, from June 26-28. The economics of security is a hot and rapidly growing field of research. More and more people are coming to realise that security failures are often due to perverse incentives rather than to the lack of suitable technical protection mechanisms. (Indeed, the former often explain the latter.) Often the people who are in a position to defend a system don't suffer the costs of failure, so they become lazy and careless. While much recent research has been on “cyberspace” secury issues - from hacking through fraud to copyright policy - it is expanding to throw light on “everyday” security issues at one end (such as whether we spend too much or too little on police and on insurance) and to provide new insights and new problems for theoretical computer scientists and “normal” economists at the other. In the commercial world, as in the world of diplomacy, there can be complex linkages between security arguments and economic ends.
IR: What about the programme?
RA: The preliminary programme is available here
IR: Other?
RA: WEIS 2006 is sponsored by the Institute for Information Infrastructure Protection (I3P), Microsoft Research and the Foundation for Information Policy Research. Finally, WEIS is co-located with the Sixth Workshop on Privacy Enhancing Technologies which brings together anonymity and privacy experts from around the world to discuss recent advances and new perspectives in privacy for the Internet and other communication networks.
IR: Thanks Professor.
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