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SUMMARY:Timing is Everything: Theoretical and Behavioral Results on Securi
 ty Decision-Making in Continuous Time
DTSTART:20140602T114500
DTSTAMP:20260407T025921Z
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Jens GROSSKLAGS\, Penn State University\nThis talk addresses s
 ecurity and safety choices that involve a decision on the timing of securi
 ty actions. Examples of such decisions include when to make backups\, when
  to patch\, when to update passwords\, or when to check the correctness of
  personal financial account information. Similarly\, organizations typical
 ly set policies for password updates and key renewals. In the first part o
 f the talk\, I will present a game-theoretic framework that allows for the
  study of the economically optimal mitigation timing in the presence of di
 fferent types of attacks. Particular focus is given to sophisticated attac
 ks that have limited observability from the defender's perspective\, i.e.\
 , they remain covert. In the second part of the talk\, I will report resul
 ts from several experimental studies that explore performance in timing-re
 lated security situations. Results shed light on how our innate abilities 
 and cognitive predispositions shape our security behaviors when timing is 
 the critical decision-making dimension.
LOCATION:BC 420 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==BC%20420
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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