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Data breaches matter...in the short term

In the past, a few studies addressed the problem of understanding the impact of a data breach suffered by a company on the company's value (see, e.g. the paper "The effect of internet security breach announcements on market value" by Cavusoglu … Continue reading

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The role of customers in data breach events and security investments

In the most established model to evaluate the effectiveness of security investments by Gordon and Loeb, the probability of data breaches is represented as a function of investments only. The more the company invests to protect the data of its … Continue reading

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If the provider has to compensate for data breaches...

....revenues can be the right basis to do it. Proposals for holding the service provider liable for damages suffered by its customers due to data breaches have been submitted in the past. In our papers "Liability for Data Breaches: A … Continue reading

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