16:198:500:06 Light Seminar: Economics of Cybersecurity

Rutgers University

Fall 2009

Time:	Mondays, 1:30pm - 2:30pm
Location:	CoRE Building, Room 305 (CoRE B)

Seminar Description

In this light seminar / reading group, we will discuss a number of research papers on the economics of cybersecurity. Students will take turns presenting papers. All students should read Ross Anderson's survey paper, which provides a good introduction to the topic of the seminar and many of the results we will cover.

Schedule

Date	Paper(s) or Topic	Presenter
September 14	Organization and introduction	Rebecca Wright
September 21	Introduction to game theory and equilibria	Rich McLean
September 28	Introduction to game theory and equilibria, cont'd.	Rich McLean
October 5	Nobody Sells Gold for the Price of Silver: Dishonesty, Uncertainty and the Underground Economy	Qiang Ma
October 12	No class	No class.
October 19	Game Theory with Costly Computation	Aaron Jaggard
October 26	Game Theory with Costly Computation, cont'd.	Aaron Jaggard
November 2	On Non-Cooperative Location Privacy: A Game-Theoretic Analysis	Md Ehtesamul Haque
November 9	No class. You should attend the New York Computer Science and Economics Day if possible.	No class.
November 16	The legitimate vulnerability market: the secretive world of 0-day exploit sales and What is the economic value of a zero-day exploit?	Brian Thompson
November 23	Secure or Insure? A Game-Theoretic Analysis of Information Security Games	Huijun Xiong
November 30	Modelling the economic incentives of DDoS attacks: femtocell case study	Kui Xu
December 7	Ecomonics of Malware (WEIS2009)	Mangesh Gupte
December 14	NO CLASS

Papers

Good resources for papers to consider are available at http://infosecon.net/workshop/bibliography.php and http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/econsec.html, though relevant papers not on these lists can also be included.