-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] CFP: Workshop on the Economics of Information Security, 3-4 June 2019, Harvard University, Boston, MA Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2019 15:35:01 -0500 From: Sam Ransbotham sam.ransbotham@bc.edu To: aisworld@lists.aisnet.org

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