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CS 5338 - Security Economics


Credits: 3

Introduces 1) economics as a tool for understanding and managing information security and 2) the techniques of analytic and empirical modeling. Students review key information security challenges and technologies in order to reason about the topics economically, and they explore economic concepts such as rationality, markets, and information. Presents models and metrics of security investment, cost-benefit analysis techniques, and techniques for empirical investigation and measurement of cybercrime. Students design security games to capture the strategic interaction between defenders and between attackers and defenders. Includes the implications for public policy. Prerequisite: CS 3353  or junior standing if not a declared CS major.



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