SecurityRatty: Weather, Information Security, and Markets

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Weather, Information Security, and Markets

2008-01-07 09:15:52 by Editor in IEEE Security and Privacy

The author suggests a derivative market for hedging the risk involved with information security, based on the premise that protection from harm on any networked computer system will never be 100 percent. The key question is whether we can hedge risks that we can't prevent by technical means with financial instruments, such as derivatives.