Tag Archives: Security

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 Annual Privacy Forum 2014

Last week I was in Athens to attend the Annual Privacy Forum, jointly organized by a mixed set of organizations: ENISA (the European Union Agency for Network and Information Security), the European Commission (Directorate General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology), … Continue reading

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Our paper on security investment accepted at NSS conference

Our paper "Liability for data breaches: a proposal for a revenue-based sanctioning approach", concerning the use of sanctions to spur security investments, has been accepted for presentation at the 7th International Conference on Network and System Security (NSS 2013), to be … Continue reading

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Lack of cloud security may add hidden costs...

In a video interview,  Char Sample, CERT security solutions engineer, highlights security problems in clouds and suggests that the search for efficiency and cost reduction may lead to the cloud being prone to attacks, so that cloud migration may not be … Continue reading

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