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OTM
2010
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Using Real Option Thinking to Improve Decision Making in Security Investment
Making well-founded security investment decisions is hard: several alternatives may need to be considered, the alternatives’ space is often diffuse, and many decision parameters...
Virginia N. L. Franqueira, Siv Hilde Houmb, Maya D...
CORR
2008
Springer
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13 years 11 months ago
A Local Mean Field Analysis of Security Investments in Networks
Getting agents in the Internet, and in networks in general, to invest in and deploy security features and protocols is a challenge, in particular because of economic reasons arisi...
Marc Lelarge, Jean Bolot
IEEEARES
2009
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Estimating ToE Risk Level Using CVSS
—Security management is about calculated risk and requires continuous evaluation to ensure cost, time and resource effectiveness. Parts of which is to make future-oriented, costb...
Siv Hilde Houmb, Virginia N. L. Franqueira
USENIX
2003
14 years 6 days ago
CUP: Controlled Update Propagation in Peer-to-Peer Networks
— This paper proposes CUP, a protocol for performing Controlled Update Propagation to maintain caches of metadata in peer-to-peer networks. To moderate propagation without imposi...
Mema Roussopoulos, Mary Baker
ICDCS
2010
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Analyzing Self-Defense Investments in Internet Security under Cyber-Insurance Coverage
—Internet users such as individuals and organizations are subject to different types of epidemic risks such as worms, viruses, and botnets. To reduce the probability of risk, an ...
Ranjan Pal, Leana Golubchik