The Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (WEIS) is the leading forum for interdisciplinary scholarship on information security and privacy, combining expertise from the fields of economics, social science, business, law, policy, and computer science. Prior workshops have explored the role of incentives between attackers and defenders of information systems, identified market failures surrounding Internet security, quantified risks of personal data disclosure, and assessed investments in cyber-defense. WEIS 2015 will build on past efforts using empirical and analytic tools not only to understand threats, but also to strengthen security and privacy through novel evaluations of available solutions.
We encourage economists, computer scientists, legal scholars, business school researchers, security and privacy specialists, as well as industry experts to submit their research and participate by attending the workshop.

Suggested topics include (but are not limited to) empirical and theoretical studies of:
• Optimal investment in information security
• Models and analysis of online crime
• Risk management and cyber-insurance
• Security standards and regulation
• Cyber-security and privacy policy
• Cyber-defense strategy and game theory
• Security and privacy models and metrics
• Economics of privacy and anonymity
• Behavioral security and privacy
• Vulnerability discovery, disclosure, and patching
• Incentives for information sharing and cooperation
• Incentives regarding pervasive monitoring threats


Manuscripts should represent significant and novel research contributions.
WEIS has no formal formatting guidelines. Previous contributors spanned
fields from economics and psychology to computer science and law, each
with different norms and expectations about manuscript length and formatting.

Selected papers will be invited for publication in a special issue of the
Journal of Cybersecurity, a new, interdisciplinary, open access journal
published by Oxford University Press.

Thanks to our sponsors, a number of student travel grants are also available.

For further information please email weis2015@tudelft.nl or visit:
http://weis2015.econinfosec.org/


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IMPORTANT DATES

Submission deadline 27 February 2015
Acceptance notifications 10 April 2015
Final papers 15 May 2015
Conference dates 22-23 June 2015

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PROGRAM CHAIR & ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

* Michel van Eeten Delft University of Technology
* Hadi Asghari Delft University of Technology
* Carlos Gañán Delft University of Technology

PROGRAM COMMITEE

* Alessandro Acquisti Carnegie Mellon University
* Tansu Alpcan The University of Melbourne
* Ross Anderson Cambridge University
* Terrence August UC San Diego
* Johannes Bauer Michigan State University
* Rainer Böhme University of Münster
* Joseph Bonneau Google
* Laura Brandimarte Carnegie Mellon University
* Jean Camp Indiana University
* Jonathan Cave RAND Europe
* Huseyin Cavusoglu University of Texas at Dallas
* Nicolas Christin Carnegie Mellon University
* Ben Edelman Harvard Business School
* Serge Egelman UC Berkeley
* Stephanie Forrest University of New Mexico
* Allan Friedman Brookings Institution
* Neil Gandal Tel Aviv University
* Dan Geer In-Q-Tel
* Lawrence Gordon University of Maryland
* Jens Grossklags Penn State University
* Cormac Herley Microsoft Research
* Andre Hoogstrate Netherlands Forensics Institute
* Thorsten Holz Ruhr-Universität Bochum
* Benjamin Johnson UC Berkeley
* Eric Johnson Vanderbilt University
* Aron Laszka Vanderbilt University
* Marc Lelarge INRIA-ENS
* Martin Loeb University of Maryland
* Kanta Matsuura The University of Tokyo
* Katerina Mitrokotsa Chalmers University of Technology
* Tyler Moore Southern Methodist University
* Milton Mueller Syracuse University
* Andrew Odlyzko University of Minnesota
* Wolter Pieters TU Delft & University of Twente
* David Pym University College London
* Christian Rossow Saarland University
* Brent Rowe RTI International
* Bruce Schneier Co3 Systems
* Galina Schwartz UC Berkeley
* Richard Sullivan Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
* Rahul Telang Carnegie Mellon University
* Catherine Tucker MIT
* Nico van Eijk University of Amsterdam
* Julian Williams Durham University