Returns to information security investment: The effect of alternative information security breach functions on optimal investment and sensitivity to vulnerability

Information Systems Frontiers

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 338-349

  Hausken, Kjell ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STAVANGER   (Norway)

Author keywords

Concavity; Convexity; Information protection; Information security breach; Linearity; Logistic function; Returns assumptions; Security investment; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; FORMAL LOGIC; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INVESTMENTS;

INFORMATION PROTECTION; INFORMATION SECURITY BREACH; LOGISTIC FUNCTION; SECURITY INVESTMENT;

SECURITY OF DATA;

EID: 33846138611     PISSN: 13873326     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10796-006-9011-6     Document Type: Article

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