Search Results - subject:"Data Security"

Li, Xiaofan; Whinston, Andrew B. - 2021

Digital technologies are creating more value and thus becoming more attractive to cyber criminals. Gary Becker provides a philosophy for understanding crimes from an economic perspective, but criminal behavior and potential policies against it differ in the context of a digital economy....

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013229789

Googling About Blockchain

Arakelian, Veni - 2021

Modern technology allows people to communicate directly using voice and video calls, emails, instant messages traveling from one device to another. Communication is done by maintaining trust in each other without a third party, no matter how far away they are. But when in a communication between...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013229809

Non-Inclusive Online Security : Older Adults' Experience with Two-Factor Authentication

Das, Sanchari; Kim, Andrew; Jelen, Ben; Huber, Lesa; … - 2021

Older adults access critical resources online, including bank, retirement, and health insurance accounts. Thus, it is necessary to protect their accounts so they can confidently use these services that are increasingly being moved online. Two-factor authentication (2FA) protects online assets...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013230746

Prevailing Privacy and Security Technologies in Smart Cities

Varshney, Tanishq; Singh, Rajesh; Rai, Amit Kumar; … - 2021

It is expected from a smart city that it helps in attaining sustainable development, enhancing functionalities of smart applications and upgrade the standards of urban lifestyle. Taking advantages form IoT, novel concepts for designing and maintaining intelligent cities have been developed....

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013231559

Unreasonable : A Strict Liability Solution to the FTC’s Data Security Problem

Cooper, James C.; Kobayashi, Bruce H. - 2021

FTC’s current approach to data security is unlikely to instill anything close to optimal incentives for data holders … obtain the type of relief that will force firms to internalize the costs of their data security decisions. We examine the … problem of data security enforcement through the lens of the economics of optimal precautions and identify several reasons why …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013232214

Privacy versus Convenience : Customer Response to Data Breaches of Their Information

Agarwal, Sumit; Ghosh, Pulak; Ruan, Tianyue; Zhang, Yunqi - 2021

Cybersecurity breaches pose a substantial privacy concern in the digital era. We investigate how customers respond to privacy leakage in multiple unexpected data breaches. Difference-in-differences estimates show that digital payments declined by 4.6% ~ 7.5% relative to cash payments immediately...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013232276

Multilateral Contracts in Information Security Outsourcing

Zhao, Ming; Wang, Jingguo; Zhang, Jie - 2021

Coordinating the efforts of contractual parties in information security outsourcing is challenging given that a managed security service provider (MSSP) and its contractual partners cannot perfectly observe or verify each other's investment. This study examines the use of multilateral contracts...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013232605

Information Security Requires Strongly-Typed Actors and Theories

Hewitt, Carl - 2021

This article discusses how Actors help with endpoint information security by making it much more difficult for cyberattackers to penetrate Actors. It does not address the issue of cyberattacks that deceive Actors as discussed in [Hewitt ”Project Liftoff"]. The article shows how fundamental...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013233808

Accounting Information Systems in the Blockchain Era

Fullana, Olga; Ruiz, Javier - 2021

In this paper we analyse the advantages that the application of blockchain technology brings to accounting information systems (AIS), but also highlight the potential issues with its use. We examine the use of blockchain against the background of the historical evolution of accounting...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013214072

Cybercrime and Cybersecurity : FinTech’s Greatest Challenges

Adeyoju, Ademola - 2021

The arrival of financial technology (“FinTech”) companies can be traced to a number of regulatory changes made after The Great Depression of the 1920s. Among others, the United States Banking Act—which separated commercial banking from investment banking (and thus, limited the interest...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013214253