This paper presents a continuous-time dynamic model of market adoption of cybersecurity. Individuals choose whether and when to make a precautionary investment in self-protection against the evolving security risk of direct attack and indirect contagion. The equilibrium adoption path has a...

This article aims at providing an alternative explanation to cybersecurity conundrum in trade. This article takes a systemic and holistic stance to observe cybersecurity by applying an institutionalist approach to analyze the cybersecurity provisions in free trade agreements (hereinafter...

The EU Agency for Network and Information Security (ENISA) is proposing a far-reaching "European Cybersecurity Certification Scheme for Cloud Services" (EUCS) to be established in the European Union (EU). According to the latest draft of August 2023, leaked by Politico in September 2023, the...

The May 2021 ransomware attack on Colonial Pipeline was a wake-up call for a federal administration slow to realize the dangers that cybersecurity threats pose to our critical national infrastructure. The attack forced hundreds of thousands of Americans along the east coast to stand in endless...

Data breaches have been causing havoc for many years and continue to rise, demanding a more comprehensive framework to assess their severity. This study proposes a cybersecurity risk quantification and classification framework, addressing a significant research gap in breach severity evaluation....