IC Mondays seminars - Trust Economics Methodology for Information Security Decisions
Event details
| Date | 17.05.2010 |
| Hour | 16:15 |
| Speaker | Prof. Aad van Moorsel, University of Newcastle |
| Location |
INM 202
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| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
Abstract:
The Trust Economics methodology combines insights from economics, human-computer interaction, performance modelling and information systems, with as objective to make better founded decisions about IT security policies. At its core are stochastic models of IT systems, which take as input human behavioural tendencies and economic or business drivers. The output of the model is a preference or utility value, which stakeholders can use as a solid foundation for their decisions, and can further tune by interacting with the model. The work on establishing the Trust Economics methodology is carried out jointly with HP Labs, Merrill-Lynch, Bath, Aberdeen and UCL, and we undertake additional related work with UIUC and with Imperial College. In Newcastle, our research focuses on the development of a Trust Economics ontology for information security investment decisions, its associated software tools, case studies in DRM and Access Management, and defining and validating modelling concepts for human behavioural aspects. In this talk I'll try to illustrate how Newcastle's research adds towards the Trust Economics methodology.
Biography:
Aad van Moorsel is a Professor in Computer Science at Newcastle University, UK. He worked in industry from 1996 until 2003, first as a researcher at Bell Labs/Lucent Technologies in Murray Hill and then as a research manager at Hewlett-Packard Labs in Palo Alto. He received his PhD in computer science from Universiteit Twente in The Netherlands (1993) and has a Masters in mathematics from Universiteit Leiden, also in The Netherlands. After finishing his PhD he was a postdoc at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA, for two years. He has worked in a variety of areas, from performance modelling to systems management, from web services to cloud computing and on issues of security and trust. His current research agenda aims at establishing an intelligent enterprise, with a specific focus on trust, privacy and security. The recent research is highly interdisciplinary, using ideas from social and business sciences, to gain a deeper understanding of issues of trust in, for instance, cloud computing. DTI, EPSRC and EU-funded collaborations are ongoing with Hewlett-Packard, Merrill-Lynch, Imperial College, Aberdeen, Bath, UCL, various universities throughout Europe, and the Business School as well as the Medical School in Newcastle.
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- G. Rochat