June 7- 8, 2007
The Heinz School and CyLab at Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA (USA)

 

PROGRAM

Directions to the buildings hosting the different events are available on our Travel page.

Please note that all presentation sessions will be held in the Collaborative Innovation Center (CIC), Room 1201, Carnegie Mellon University.

Wednesday, June 6

6-8pm Registration, Grand Room at Posner Hall, (3rd floor, Tepper School of Business), Carnegie Mellon University

6-8pm Welcome reception, Grand Room at Posner Hall

Thursday, June 7

8am-12pm Registration, Collaborative Innovation Center (CIC), Room 1201

7:30-8:15am Breakfast, Collaborative Innovation Center (CIC), Room 1201

8:15-8:30am Welcome Address, Collaborative Innovation Center (CIC), Room 1201

    The welcome address will be given by Dean Mark Wessel, H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy & Management, Carnegie Mellon University.

Session I - 8:30-10:30am (Disclosure), Collaborative Innovation Center (CIC), Room 1201

10:30-11am Coffee Break

Session II - 11am-12pm (Privacy), Collaborative Innovation Center (CIC), Room 1201

12-1pm Lunch, Newell-Simon Hall Atrium

1-2pm Keynote speech (George Loewenstein), Collaborative Innovation Center (CIC), Room 1201

    WEIS 2007 is delighted to host a keynote speech by Dr. George Loewenstein, Herbert A. Simon Professor of Economics and Psychology at Carnegie Mellon University. The title of the talk will be: Searching for Security in all the Wrong Places: A psychological perspective on individual concern for privacy.

    George Loewenstein is the Herbert A. Simon Professor of Economics and Psychology at Carnegie Mellon University. He received his PhD from Yale University in 1985 and since then has held academic positions at The University of Chicago and Carnegie Mellon University, and fellowships at Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, The Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, The Russell Sage Foundation and The Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin. He is one of the founders of the field of behavioral economics and more recently of the new field of neuroeconomics. Loewenstein's research focuses on applications of psychology to economics, and his specific interests include decision making over time, bargaining and negotiations, psychology and health, law and economics, the psychology of adaptation, the role of emotion in decision making, the psychology of curiosity, conflict of interest, and "out of control" behaviors such as impulsive violent crime and drug addiction. He has published over 100 journal articles, numerous book chapters, and has edited 6 books on topics ranging from intertemporal choice to behavioral economics to emotions.

Session III - 2-3:30pm (Security Investments), Collaborative Innovation Center (CIC), Room 1201

3:30-4pm Coffee Break

Session IV - 4-5:30pm (Managed Security Service Providers), Collaborative Innovation Center (CIC), Room 1201

Banquet Dinner, 6-9pm

Friday, June 8

8am-12pm Registration, Collaborative Innovation Center (CIC), Room 1201

7:30-8:30am Breakfast, Collaborative Innovation Center (CIC), Room 1201

Session V - 8:30-10am (Privacy-Personalization), Collaborative Innovation Center (CIC), Room 1201

10-10:30am Coffee Break

Session VI - 10:30am-12pm (Empirics of Information Security), Collaborative Innovation Center (CIC), Room 1201

12-1:30pm Box Lunch and Tutorial, Collaborative Innovation Center (CIC), Room 1201


1:30-2pm Short Break

Session VII - 2-3pm, (Rump Sessions) Collaborative Innovation Center (CIC), Room 1201

    Chair - Jean Camp, Indiana University

    Assessing the Value of Investments in Network Security Operations: A Systems Analytics Approach
    Jonathan Griffin, Brian Monahan, David Pym, Mike Wonham, and Mike Yearworth, HP Laboratories

    The Gordon-Loeb Investment Model Generalized: Time Dependent Multiple Threats and Breach Losses over an Investment Period.
    Rolf Hulthen, TeliaSonera

    An Uneasy Relationship: Cyber Security Information Sharing, Communications Privacy, and the Boundaries of the Firm
    Aaron Burstein, University of California, Berkeley

    Hiding, Seeking, and the Evolution of Privacy Behavior
    Stefan Dodds, Carleton University

    A Reputation Mechanism for Software Vulnerability Disclosure and Patch Release
    Xia Zhao, Jianqing Chen, and Andrew B. Whinston, University of Texas at Austin

    A Survival Analysis of Disclosed Security Breaches
    Xiaodong Jin, Dan Yomine

Session VIII 3- 4:30pm (Risk), Collaborative Innovation Center (CIC), Room 1201

End of Workshop