The growing economic importance of technical standards has heightened the need for a better understanding of why they succeed or fail. While existing literature has scrutinized the role of public governance, particularly in the realms of regulation, antitrust, and intellectual property, to date...

Changes that are constantly taking place in the digital economy cause increasing instability of legislation in the field of data protection and security. For example, in Ukraine, under martial law, there is an urgent need to adapt the legal regulation to European data protection standards (in...

A zero-confirmation transaction is a transaction that has not yet been confirmed on the blockchain and, as such, is not yet part of the blockchain. The network propagates zero-confirmation transactions quickly, but they are not secured against double-spending attacks. In This paper, we suggest a...

Bug bounty program is a business activity in which firms invite white-hat hackers around the world to identify vulnerabilities in their cyber systems. The paper proposes a model to quantify the normal cybersecurity spending with respect to the importance of information systems. An upper limit of...

Under-reporting in cyber incidents is a well-established problem. Due to reputational risk and the consequent financial impact, a large proportion of incidents are never disclosed to the public, especially if they do not involve a breach of protected data. Generally, the problem of...

We describe a Blockchain-based, peer-to-peer network of distributed computers solving arbitrary, strictly- defined problems for a financial incentive in the form of a cryptographic currency. The computational problems are signed and posted to the blockchain in a contract describing the minimal...

Epidemics, such as COVID-19, have serious consequences globally, of which the most effective way to control the infection is contact tracing. Nowadays, research releated to privacy-preserving epidemic infection control for has been conducted, nevertheless, current researches do not regard the...