From david.pym at hp.com Tue Feb 3 06:56:30 2009 From: david.pym at hp.com (David Pym) Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2009 11:56:30 +0000 Subject: [EIS] Call for Papers: WEIS 2009, London, 24-25 June 2009 Message-ID: <498830EE.6080503@hp.com> The Eighth Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (WEIS 2009) University College London, England 24-25 June 2009 http://weis09.infosecon.net 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 strategies 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. Important dates and links Submissions due 28 February, 2009 Notification of acceptance 10 April, 2009 Workshop 24-25 June, 2009 Papers to be submitted online by 23:59 GMT on Saturday, 28 February, 2009, preferably in PDF format. The Submission site (iChair) may be found at http://weis09.infosecon.net 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. We look forward to receiving your submissions and to seeing you in London. Yvo Desmedt Christos Ioannidis David pym Angela Sasse -- 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 david.pym at hp.com Fri Feb 20 11:13:23 2009 From: david.pym at hp.com (David Pym) Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 16:13:23 +0000 Subject: [EIS] Call for Papers: WEIS 2009, London, 24-25 June 2009: Submission Deadline 28 Feb Message-ID: <499ED6A3.8050206@hp.com> The Eighth Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (WEIS 2009) University College London, England 24-25 June 2009 http://weis09.infosecon.net 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 strategies 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. Important dates and links Submissions due 28 February, 2009 Notification of acceptance 10 April, 2009 Workshop 24-25 June, 2009 Papers to be submitted online by 23:59 GMT on Saturday, 28 February, 2009, preferably in PDF format. The Submission site (iChair) may be found at http://weis09.infosecon.net 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. We look forward to receiving your submissions and to seeing you in London. Yvo Desmedt Christos Ioannidis David Pym Angela Sasse -- 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 to additional recipients 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 david.pym at hp.com Thu Feb 26 16:40:38 2009 From: david.pym at hp.com (David Pym) Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 21:40:38 +0000 Subject: [EIS] WEIS 2009: Submission Deadline Extended: 7 March 2009 Message-ID: <49A70C56.2040003@hp.com> In response to several requests: ***DEADLINE EXTENSION to 7 MARCH, 2009*** The Eighth Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (WEIS 2009) University College London, England 24-25 June 2009 http://weis09.infosecon.net 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 strategies 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. Important dates and links Submissions due 28 February, 2009: EXTENSION TO 7 MARCH Notification of acceptance 10 April, 2009 Workshop 24-25 June, 2009 Papers to be submitted online by 23:59 GMT on Saturday, 28 February, 2009, preferably in PDF format. The Submission site (iChair) may be found at http://weis09.infosecon.net 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. We look forward to receiving your submissions and to seeing you in London. Yvo Desmedt Christos Ioannidis David Pym Angela Sasse -- 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".