Next econ & security workshop is in October (Score 1)

The next workshop on economics & info security will be held in October. So if you have strongly held views in this area (and who on slashdot lacks strongly held views), then think about submitting. You don't have to be an academic to submit a paper, although arguments should be carefully constructed and well organized.

The Workshop on the Economics of Securing the Information Infrastructure (WESII)

• Workshop: October 23-24, 2006, Washington DC
• Papers due: August 6, 2006

Suggested topics (not intended to be comprehensive):

• The economics of deploying security into:
  • The Domain Name System (DNS)
  • BGP & routing infrastructure
  • Email & spam prevention
  • Programming languages
  • Legacy code bases
  • User interfaces
  • Operating systems
• Measuring the cost of adding security
• Models of deployment penetration
• Empirical studies of deployment
• Measuring/estimating damages
• Code origin authentication
• Establishing roots of trust
• Identity management infrastructure
• Data archival and warehousing infrastructure
• Securing open source code libraries
• Adding security to/over existing APIs
• Liability and legal issues
• Internet politics
• Antitrust Issues
• Privacy Issues