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The 18th Annual Workshop on the Economics of Information Security
(WEIS 2019)
https://weis2019.econinfosec.org
Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, June 3-4, 2019
Information security and privacy continue to grow in importance,
as threats proliferate, privacy erodes, and attackers find new
sources of value. Yet the security of information systems and the
privacy offered by them depends on more than just technology. Each
requires an understanding of the incentives and trade-offs
inherent to the behavior of people and organizations. As society’s
dependence on information technology has deepened, policy-makers
have taken notice. Now more than ever, careful research is needed
to characterize accurately threats and countermeasures, in both
the public and private sectors.
The Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (WEIS) is
the leading forum for interdisciplinary scholarship on information
security and privacy, 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 of information systems, identified
market failures surrounding Internet security, quantified risks of
personal data disclosure, and assessed investments in
cyber-defense. The 2019 workshop will build on past efforts using
empirical and analytic tools not only to understand threats, but
also to strengthen security and privacy through novel evaluations
of available solutions.
We encourage economists, computer scientists, legal scholars,
business school researchers, security and privacy specialists, as
well as industry experts to submit their research and participate
by attending the workshop. Suggested topics include (but are not
limited to) empirical and theoretical studies of:
Optimal investment in information security
Models and analysis of online crime (including botnets,
ransomware, and underground markets)
Cyber-risk quantification and cyber-insurance
Security standards and regulation
Vulnerability discovery, disclosure, and patching
Incentives for information sharing and cooperation
Cyber-security policy
Economics of privacy and anonymity
Behavioral security and privacy
Incentives for and against pervasive monitoring threats
Cyber-defense strategy
SUBMISSION
Submitted manuscripts should represent significant and novel
research contributions. WEIS has no formal formatting guidelines.
Previous contributors spanned fields from economics and psychology
to computer science and law, each with different norms and
expectations about manuscript length and formatting. This year,
authors have the option to submit their manuscripts in anonymized
form for double-blind review. Advisable rules of thumb include:
using past WEIS accepted papers as templates and adhering to your
community’s publication standards.
Please submit your papers via EasyChair
(
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=weis2019).
Authors whose papers appear at the workshop may be invited to
submit a revised version to a special issue of the Journal of
Cybersecurity, an interdisciplinary open access journal published
by Oxford University Press. Revised papers will undergo an
additional round of peer review after the workshop, and accepted
papers will appear in the special issue. Please note that
publication charges must be paid to facilitate open access, but a
publishing fund is available to authors whose institutions cannot
pay. For more information please see
http://cybersecurity.oxfordjournals.org/for_authors/index.html.
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission deadline: February 15, 2019 (by midnight EST)
Notification of acceptance: April 7, 2019
Final papers due (revisions): May 10, 2019
Workshop dates: June 3-4, 2019
CONFERENCE CHAIRS
Bruce Schneier, IBM Resilient
Sam Ransbotham, Boston College
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Alessandro Acquisti, Carnegie Mellon University
Idris Adjerid, Virginia Tech
Ross Anderson, Cambridge University
Daniel Arce, UT Dallas
Terrence August, UC San Diego
Johannes Bauer, Michigan State University
Jesse Bockstedt, Emory University
Rainer Böhme, University of Innsbruck
Laura Brandimarte, University of Arizona
Jean Camp, Indiana University
Jonathan Cave, RAND Europe
Huseyin Cavusoglu, University of Texas at Dallas
Nicolas Christin, Carnegie Mellon University
Richard Clayton, University of Cambridge
Ben Edelman, Harvard Business School
Ben Edwards, IBM Research
Serge Egelman, ICSI & UC Berkeley
Neil Gandal, Tel Aviv University
Dan Geer, In-Q-Tel
Lawrence Gordon, University of Maryland
Sol Greenspan, National Science Foundation
Jens Grossklags, TU Munich
Chad Heitzenrater, Air Force Research Laboratory
Kai-Lung Hui, HKUST
M. Eric Johnson, Vanderbilt University
Kartik Kannnan, Purdue University
Aron Laszka, Vanderbilt University
Martin Loeb, University of Maryland
Thomas Maillart, University of Geneva
Fabio Massacci, University of Trento
Kanta Matsuura, University of Tokyo
Damon McCoy, New York University
Sabyasachi Mitra, Georgia Tech
Tyler Moore, University of Tulsa
Frank Nagle, Harvard Business School
Andrew Odlyzko, University of Minnesota
Min-Seok Pang, Temple University
Wolter Pieters, TU Delft
Lorenzo Pupillo, CEPS
David Pym, University College London
Sasha Romanosky, RAND
Rahul Telang, Carnegie Mellon University
Catherine Tucker, MIT
Marie Vasek, University of New Mexico
Liad Wagman, Illinois Institute of Technology
Julian Williams, Durham University
Dmitry Zhdanov, Georgia State University
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Sam Ransbotham
Boston College
Associate Professor of Information Systems
sam.ransbotham@bc.edu
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