Investments and trade-offs in the economics of information security

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5628 LNCS, Issue , 2009, Pages 148-166

  Ioannidis, Christos ^a   Pym, David ^b   Williams, Julian ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BATH   (United Kingdom)

^b HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOICE OF PARAMETERS; ECONOMICS OF INFORMATION; FUNDAMENTAL CHARACTERISTICS; INFORMATION SECURITY; PARAMETER CONSTELLATION; STABILITY CONDITION; TIME EVOLUTIONS;

CRYPTOGRAPHY; ECONOMICS; INVESTMENTS;

SECURITY OF DATA;

EID: 70350359511     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-03549-4_9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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