The Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (WEIS) is the leading forum for interdisciplinary scholarship on information security and privacy, combining expertise from the fields of economics, social science, business, law, policy, and computer science.
The WEIS 2018 program consists of the presentation and discussion of research papers. The papers have been selected in a rigorous peer-review process by an international program committee.
Ross Anderson has summarized all presentations in his liveblog.
Sunday, June 17, 2018
| 5:30-8:30pm | Welcome Reception in the Atrium of the Court Church Please join us for drinks and hors d’oeuvres at this historic site. Enter the atrium via the workshop registration desk at the entrance of the Museum of Tyrolean Regional Heritage, Universitätsstrasse 2, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria (250 meters walking distance from the conference hotel). |
Monday, June 18, 2018
| 8:00-9:00am | Registration |
| 9:00-9:15am | Chair’s Welcome
Rainer Böhme (Department of Computer Science) |
| 9:15-9:30am | Briefing on economic and behavioral economic research in Innsbruck
What do taxi drivers and IT experts have in common? On asymmetric information and fraud |
| 9:30-10:45am | Session: Studying the Defender
Chair: Michel van Eeten Designing organizations for cyber security resilience On the effort for security maintenance of open source components Domain registration policy strategies and the fight against online crime |
| 10:45-11:15am | Coffee Break |
| 11:15-12:30pm | Session: Studying the Underground
Chair: Susan Landau Issued for abuse: measuring the underground trade in code signing certificates Ransomware payments in the Bitcoin ecosystem To pay or not: game theoretic models of ransomware |
| 12:30-2:00pm | Lunch Meals will be served in the restaurant and gallery area on the first floor of the conference venue. |
| 2:00-3:15pm | Session: Cryptocurrencies and the Real World
Chair: Nicolas Christin The rise and fall of cryptocurrencies Virtual currencies and fundamental rights Bitcoin redux |
| 3:15-3:45pm | Coffee Break |
| 3:45-5:00pm | Session: Education and Behavior
Chair: Alessandro Acquisti Better late(r) than never: Increasing cyber-security compliance by reducing present bias The effect of security education and expertise on security assessments: the case of software vulnerabilities Does online piracy make computers insecure? Evidence from panel data |
| 5:00-6:00pm | Steering Committee Meeting Location: SR 2 on the ground floor of the conference hotel |
| 7:00-10:00pm | Social Event & Workshop Dinner Stiftskeller Innsbruck, Stiftsgasse 1–7, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria (300 meters walking distance from the conference hotel) |
Tuesday, June 19, 2018
| 8:30-9:00am | Registration |
| 9:00-9:05am | Good Morning Address |
| 9:05-10:20am | Session: Cyber Risk Quantification and Insurance
Chair: Ross Anderson The price of cyber (in)security: evidence from the Italian private sector Embracing and controlling risk dependency in cyber insurance policy underwriting Monte Carlo methods to investigate how aggregated cyber insurance claims data impacts security investments |
| 10:20-10:50am | Coffee Break |
| 10:50-12:30pm | Session: Information Sharing and Privacy
Chair: Jens Grossklags Incentives for human agents to share security information: a model and an empirical test Information disclosure and security policy design: a large-scale randomization experiment in Pan-Asia An analysis of the effectiveness of the EU data breach notification obligation Sponsored search advertisement and consumer prices: an empirical investigation |
| 12:30-2:00pm | Lunch Meals will be served in the restaurant and gallery area on the first floor of the conference venue. |
| 2:00-2:15pm | Group Picture The group picture will be taken in the Hofgarten next to the conference venue, weather permitting. |
| 2:15-3:30pm | Session: Markets and Signals
Chair: Sam Ransbotham A trading market to incentivize secure software A bug bounty perspective on the disclosure of web vulnerabilities Analysis of leaky deception for network security using signaling games with evidence |
| 3:30-4:00pm | Coffee Break |
| 4:00-4:55pm | Rump Session
Chair: Tyler Moore Participants are invited to give 5 minute talks on new ideas, reflections on presented work, ongoing research, research published recently in other venues, or entertaining perspectives. To reserve a slot, please sign up with the Rump Session Chair during the conference. |
| 4:55-5:00pm | Closing Remarks |
WEIS 2019 will be held at Harvard.