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Economic aspects of information security: An emerging field of research

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This paper chronicles the development of economics of information security as an academic area of research. It also describes the contributions of the papers in the special section of this issue devoted to the topic.

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  1. The agenda for WEIS 2002 (and links to papers) can be found at: http://www.sims.berkeley.edu:8000/resources/affiliates/workshops/econsecurity/

  2. The agenda for WEIS 2003 (and links to the papers) can be found at: http://www.cpppe.umd.edu/rhsmith3/agenda.htm

  3. The agenda for WEIS 2004 (and links to the papers) can be found at: http://www.dtc.umn.edu/weis2004/agenda.html

  4. The agenda for WEIS 2005 (and links to the papers) can be found at http://infosecon.net/workshop/schedule.php

  5. The agenda for WEIS 2006 (and links to the papers) can be found at: http://weis2006.econinfosec.org/prog.html

  6. The agenda for WEIS 2006 (and links to the papers) can be found at: http://wesii.econinfosec.org/workshop/program.php

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  1. University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, 3351 Van Munching Hall, College Park, MD, 20742-1815, USA

    Lawrence A. Gordon & Martin P. Loeb

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Gordon, L.A., Loeb, M.P. Economic aspects of information security: An emerging field of research. Inf Syst Front 8, 335–337 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10796-006-9010-7

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