Program


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.

The WEIS 2023 program consists of the presentation and discussion of research papers. The papers have been selected in a rigorous peer-review process by an international program committee. Presenting authors are highlighted in bold.

As a recognition of the research work, there will be awards to the Best Paper (1000 CHF), Best Paper Presentation (750 CHF) and Best Poster Presentation (250 CHF). 

Tuesday, July 4, 2023

7:00-9:00pm Informal get-together on a panoramic terrace of Campus Biotech Innovation Park: Please register here (deadline Sunday July 2nd 8pm CET)

 

Wednesday, July 5, 2023

8:30-11:00am CERN Visit
  • Synchroton
  • Data Center
  • Atlas Experiment Control Center
  • IdeaSquare
Please register here (deadline Sunday July 2nd 8pm CET)
12:00-1:00pm Registration
1:00-1:30pm Welcome address

Thomas Maillart, University of Geneva

Jonas Haertle, Chief of the Office of the Executive Director, UNITAR

1:30-2:45pm Session: Cyber Incidents and Insurance

Chair: Mingyan Liu

Time Dynamics of Cyber Risk
Martin Eling, Rustam Ibragimov & Dingchen Ning

M&A Effect on Data Breaches in Hospitals: 2010-2022 (WEIS'23 Best Paper)
Nan Clement

Does Decomposing Losses Improve Our Understanding of the Financial Impact of Data Breaches?
Justin Theriot & Benjamin Gowan

2:45-3:00pm Coffee Break
3:00-4:00pm Panel: Incentivizing Cyber Resilience
4:00-4:15pm Coffee Break
4:15-5:15pm Session: Online Crime

Chair: Tyler Moore

Argot as a Trust Signal: Slang, Jargon & Reputation on a Large Cybercrime Forum
Jack Hughes, Andrew Caines & Alice Hutchings

You Can Tell a Cybercriminal by the Company they Keep: A Framework to Infer the Relevance of Underground Communities to the Threat Landscape
Michele Campobasso, Radu Rădulescu, Sylvan Brons & Luca Allodi

7:00-10:00pm Gala Dinner at United Nations Beach Club

Thursday, July 6, 2023

8:30-9:00am Welcome Coffee
9:00-10:15am Session: Open Source Security

Chair: Susan Landau

Enhancing Vulnerability Prioritization: Data-Driven Exploit Predictions with Community-Driven Insights
Jay Jacobs, Sasha Romanosky, Octavian Suciu, Ben Edwards & Armin Sarabi

A Theory of Open Source Security: The Spillover of Security Knowledge in Vulnerability Disclosures through Software Supply Chains
Yu-Kai Lin & Weifeng Li

Cyberattacks, Media Coverage and Municipal Finance
Lefteris Andreadis, Elena Kalotychou, Christodoulos Louca, Christian Lundblad & Christos Makridis

10:15-10:45am Rump Session

Chair: Svetlana Abramova

Participants are invited to give 5 minute talks on new ideas, reflections on presented work, ongoing research, research published recently in other venues, or entertaining perspectives. To reserve a slot, please sign up with the Rump Session Chair during the conference.

10:45-11:00am Coffee Break
11:00-12:00pm Panel: Open Source Intelligence and Information Security
12:00-1:30pm Lunch
1:30-2:30pm Session: Digital Sovereignty

Chair: Ross Anderson

Trade-offs in Automating Platform Regulatory Compliance By Algorithm: Evidence from the COVID-19 Pandemic
Grazia Cecere, Clara Jean, Vincent Lefrere & Catherine Tucker

Municipal Cyber Risk
Jonathan Jensen & Fiona Paine

2:30-3:00pm Coffee Break
3:00-4:00pm Panel: Digital Sovereignty
4:00-4:15pm Coffee Break
4:15-5:00pm Session: Security Games

Chair: Dann Arce

Attackers and Defenders in Cybersecurity and their Optimal Investment Decisions
Austin Ebel & Debasis Mitra

Interdependent Security Games in the Stackelberg Style: How First-Mover Advantage Impacts Free-Riding and Security (Under-)Investment
Ziyuan Huang, Parinaz Naghizadeh & Mingyan Liu

5:00-6:00pm Poster Session
The following posters will be presented at the workshop:

A History of Cyber Risk Transfer Daniel W. Woods & Josephine Wolff

A Typology Framework to Quantify Business Cyber Security Behavior: Analysis from the UK Cyber Security Breaches Survey Anna Cartwright & Edward Cartwright

Consumer Insurance and Cyber Losses: Gaps, Coverage, and Pricing (WEIS'23 Best Poster) Margherita Marinetti, Rachiyta Jain & Daniel W. Woods

Data and Statecraft: Why and How States Localize Data Sanghyun Han

Measuring the Performance of Information Security Investments: An Empirical Analysis by Cybersecurity Sectors using Crunchbase Data Loïc Maréchal, Alain Mermoud, Dimitri Percia David & Mathias Humbert

7:00-10:00pm Informal get-together at Halles de l'île (directions)

Friday, July 7, 2023

8:30-9:00am Welcome Coffee
9:00-10:15am Session: Future Economics of Security

Chair: Rainer Böhme

The Potential of Self-Regulation for Front-Running Prevention on DEXes (WEIS'23 Best Talk)
Lioba Heimbach, Eric Schertenleib & Roger Wattenhofer

Secure and Efficient Networks
Oleh Stupak

Birds of a Feather? A Comparative Analysis of DDoS Victimisation by IoT Botnet and Amplification Attacks
Swaathi Vetrivel, Arman Noroozian, Daisuke Makita, Katsunari Yoshioka, Michel van Eeten & Carlos H. Gañán

10:15-10:45am Rump Session

Chair: Josephine Wolff

Participants are invited to give 5 minute talks on new ideas, reflections on presented work, ongoing research, research published recently in other venues, or entertaining perspectives. To reserve a slot, please sign up with the Rump Session Chair during the conference.

10:45-11:00am Coffee Break
11:00-12:00pm Panel: Future Economics of Security
  • Zeina Zakhour, Vice-president, Global CTO for Digital Security in Eviden, an Atos business
  • Marieke Hood, Executive Director of Impact Translator, Geneva Science Diplomacy Anticipator (GESDA)
  • Ben Segal, Honorary Staff Member, CERN
  • Steve Ramsden, CISO and Head of Innovation at a large International Organization (Moderator)
12:00-12:30pm Awards Ceremony & Closing Remarks
12:30-2:00pm Lunch
2:00-5:30pm Free Time
5:30pm Start of the Digital Sovereignty Hackathon

Saturday, July 8, 2023

5:30pm End of the Digital Sovereignty Hackathon

Sunday, July 9, 2023

8:30am - 9pm Day trip to la Gruyere (Alps, Cheese, Chocolate and Castle) Please register here (deadline Friday July 7th 8pm CET)