GOVCERT.NL Symposium 2008. 16 & 17 September - World Trade Center Rotterdam
How Sustainable is Your Security?
Rainer Böhme Scientific Staff Member TU Dresden, Privacy and Security Research Group

Rainer Böhme holds a Master's degree in communication science, economics and computer science from Technische Universität Dresden, Germany. Currently he works as a researcher in the privacy and data security group of Technische Universität Dresden. His particular interests include steganography and steganalysis, multimedia forensics, economics of information security and behavioral aspects of privacy and security. He has authored and co-authored more than 30 international publications in these fields, some of which have been cited in Science, The Economist, New Scientist and USA Today, as well as in reports related to IT policy by the UNCTAD and the OECD. Prior to his current affiliation, he was employed by the European Central Bank, where he worked in the Forecasting and Monitoring Section of the Directorate of General Economics.

Security Economics and European Policy Wednesday 17 September, 10:20 - 11:05, Mees Auditorium

In September 2007, a team of researchers from the UK and Germany, led by Prof. Ross Anderson of Cambridge University, was awarded a contract by the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) to investigate failures in the market for secure electronic communications within the European Union, and to issue policy recommendations. In the process, we spoke to a large number of stakeholders, and held a consultative meeting in December 2007 in Brussels to present draft proposals, which established that most had wide stakeholder support. The formal outcome of our work was a detailed report, “Security Economics and the Internal Market”, published by ENISA in March 2008. We used five general headings to classify and analyze the economic barriers to network and information security, which form the structure of the presentation: information asymmetries, externalities, liability, diversity, and the fragmentation of legislation and law enforcement. The presentation will outline the recommendations we made, along with a summary of our reasoning behind these.D

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