Cyber Security Courses Subjects
Module 1 – Introduction
- Overview of the course
- Economics of information goods
- Brief history of the field: why study cybersecurity as an economics problem
- Security engineering for economists
- Economics for engineers
Module 2 – Measuring Cyber Security
- How to measure cybersecurity?
- Data collection and processing
- Metric in practice
- Case study: security metrics for botnet mitigation by ISPs
Module 3 – Security Investment & Management
- Security strategies
- Optimal information security investment
- Risk management
- Operational security management
Module 4 – Market Failures & Policies
- Public Goods
- Externalities
- Information asymmetries
Module 5 – Policy Interventions to Correct Market Failures
- Ex-ante safety regulation/ex-post liability
- Information disclosure (trust seals, certifications
- Indirect Intermediary Liability
Module 6 – Case study: cooperation and information sharing
- Phishing takedown
- The role of intermediaries
Module 7 – The Human Factor
- Introduction to behavioural economics
- The heuristics and biases tradition
- Applying behavioural economics: consumer behaviour and deception
- The behavioural economics of privacy
- Security economics and policy