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WEIS 2008 will be hosted by the Center for Digital Strategies at Dartmouth College's Tuck School of Business, in partnership with the Institute for Information Infrastructure Protection (I3P), which is managed by Dartmouth College. The workshop will take place June 25-28, 2008 in Hanover, New Hampshire.
Information security requires not only technology, but a clear understanding of risks, decision-making behaviors and metrics for evaluating business and policy options. How much should we spend on security? What incentives really drive privacy decisions? What are the trade-offs that individuals, firms, and governments face when allocating resources to protect data assets? Are there good ways to distribute risks and align goals when securing information systems?
The 2008 Workshop on the Economics of Information Security, the seventh workshop, will build on a strong and growing interdisciplinary tradition, bringing together information technology academics and practitioners with social scientists and business and legal scholars to better understand security and privacy threats. Until recently, research in security and dependability focused almost exclusively on technical factors, rather than incentives. However, we know that economic, behavioral, and legal factors often contribute as much as technology to the dependability of information and information systems. The application of economic analysis to these problems has proven to be an exciting and fruitful area of research.
For more information, please see the call for papers.
Important dates
Submissions due: March 1, 2008
Notification of acceptance: April 10, 2008
Workshop: June 25-28, 2008
Application deadline for scholarships: April 21, 2008
Hosts and sponsors
WEIS 2008 is hosted by the Center for Digital Strategies of the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, in partnership with the Institute for Information Infrastructure Protection (I3P).
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Scholarships
Student scholarships are available for qualified students to attend the workshop. The application deadline for scholarships is 11:59 pm EST on April 21, 2008. For more information, visit the Scholarships page.
