From david.pym at hp.com Wed Nov 5 10:42:58 2008 From: david.pym at hp.com (David Pym) Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2008 15:42:58 +0000 Subject: [EIS] WEIS 2009, UCL, June 24-25, 2009: Preliminary Call for Papers Message-ID: <4911BF02.5090108@hp.com> WEIS 2009: The 8th Workshop on the Economics of Information Security 24-25 June, 2009 UCL, London, UK http://weis09.infosecon.net Preliminary Call for Papers: The 2009 Workshop on the Economics of Information Security invites original research papers focused on any aspect of the economics of information security, including the economics of privacy. We encourage economists, computer scientists, psychologists, business and management school researchers, law scholars, security and privacy specialists, as well as industry experts, to submit their research and attend the Workshop. Suggested topics include (but are not limited to) empirical and theoretical economic studies of: - Models and optimality of investment in information security - Privacy, confidentiality, and anonymity - Cyber-trust and reputation systems - Interdependent supply-chain security - Intellectual property protection - Information access and provisioning - Risk management and cyber-insurance - Security standards and regulation - Behavioral security and privacy - Cyber-terrorism policy - Organizational security and metrics - Psychological, social, and systemic aspects of risk and security - Phishing, spam, and cybercrime - Vulnerability discovery, disclosure, and patching. This year we should particularly like to encourage papers taking a whole-systems view of information security, encompassing people, technology, and economics. Keynote Speakers: - Robert Coles (Merrill Lynch, UK) - Hal Varian (Google, USA) - Martin Sadler (HP Labs, UK) - Bruce Schneier (BT Counterpane, USA) Important Dates: Submissions due: 28 February 2009 Notification of acceptance: 10 April, 2009 Workshop: 24-25 June 2009 Papers should be submitted online by 23:59 GMT on Saturday 28 February 2009, preferably in PDF format. Submitted manuscripts should represent significant and novel research contributions. Please note that 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. Advisable rules of thumb include using past WEIS accepted papers as templates and adhering to your community's publication standards. Conference Co-chairs: - David Pym (HP Labs, Bristol and University of Bath, UK david.pym at hp.com) - M. Angela Sasse (University College London, UK, a.sasse at cs.ucl.ac.uk) Programme Committee: Co-Chairs: Yvo Desmedt (University College London, UK) Christos Ioannidis (University of Bath, UK) Alessandro Acquisti (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Ross Anderson (University of Cambridge, UK) Rainer Boehme (Technische Universitaet Dresden, Germany) Jean Camp (Indiana University, USA) Huseyin Cavusoglu (University of Texas at Dallas, USA) Nicolas Courtois (University College London, UK) Neil Gandal (Tel Aviv University, Israel) Larry Gordon (University of Maryland, USA) Eric Johnson (Dartmouth College, USA) Marty Loeb (University of Maryland, USA) Tyler Moore (Harvard University, USA) Andrew Odlyzko (University of Minnesota, USA) Andy Ozment (Office of the Secretary of Defense, USA) David Pym (HP Labs Bristol & University of Bath, UK) M. Angela Sasse (University College London, UK) Stuart Schechter (Microsoft Research, USA) Bruce Schneier (BT Counterpane, USA) Rahul Telang (Carnegie-Mellon University, USA) Catherine Tucker (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) We look forward to seeing you in London. -- Prof. David J. Pym t: +44 (0) 117 312 8012 Principal Scientist f: +44 (0) 117 312 9250 HP Labs e: david.pym at hp.com Bristol, UK w: http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/davpym/ Professor of Logic & Computation, University of Bath, UK Hewlett-Packard Limited Registered Office: Cain Road, Bracknell, Berks RG12 1HN. Registered No: 690597 England. The contents of this message, its subsequent correspondence, and any attachments to it are confidential and may be legally privileged. If you have received this message in error, you should delete it from your system immediately and advise the sender. Do not send, forward, or (b)cc replies, without my explicit consent. To any recipient of this message within HP, unless otherwise stated you should consider this message and attachments as "HP CONFIDENTIAL". From LGordon at rhsmith.umd.edu Wed Nov 5 21:44:20 2008 From: LGordon at rhsmith.umd.edu (Lawrence Gordon) Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 21:44:20 -0500 Subject: [EIS] Managing Cybersecurity Resources Message-ID: Dear Colleagues: Several months ago I made a decision to endow a Prize for the best essay on the topic of "Managing Cybersecurity Resources." The story, including the process by which one can apply for the Prize, can now be found at: http://www.rhsmith.umd.edu/news/stories/2008/gordonprize.aspx. My commitment to endow the Prize is part of the University of Maryland's (and the Robert H. Smith School's) Great Expectations Campaign. My initial commitment is for $25K, but I will probably increase that amount before the end of the Campaign (so as to increase the dollar amount of the Prize in future years). The goal is to get the total Endowment for the Prize up to $100K. Sincerely, Larry ______________________________ Lawrence A. Gordon, Ph.D. (http://www.rhsmith.umd.edu/faculty/lgordon/) Ernst & Young Alumni Professor of Managerial Accounting and Information Assurance Affiliate Professor in University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies Robert H. Smith School of Business 4332F Van Munching Hall University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742-1815 (301) 405-2255 TEL lgordon at rhsmith.umd.edu http://www.rhsmith.umd.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: