Timing is Everything: Theoretical and Behavioral Results on Security Decision-Making in Continuous Time
Event details
| Date | 02.06.2014 |
| Hour | 11:45 |
| Speaker | Jens GROSSKLAGS, Penn State University |
| Location | |
| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
This talk addresses security and safety choices that involve a decision on the timing of security 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 typically set policies for password updates and key renewals. In the first part of the talk, I will present a game-theoretic framework that allows for the study of the economically optimal mitigation timing in the presence of different types of attacks. Particular focus is given to sophisticated attacks that have limited observability from the defender's perspective, i.e., they remain covert. In the second part of the talk, I will report results from several experimental studies that explore performance in timing-related 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.
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Practical information
- General public
- Free
Organizer
- Jean-Pierre Hubaux
Contact
- Sylvie Thomet