Investing in Prevention or Paying for Recovery - Attitudes to Cyber Risk

Anna Cartwright; Edward Cartwright; Lian Xue

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-32430-8_9

Investing in Prevention or Paying for Recovery - Attitudes to Cyber Risk

Anna Cartwright
, Edward Cartwright
, Lian Xue

De Montfort University
Wuhan University

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Abstract

Broadly speaking an individual can invest time and effort to avoid becoming victim to a cyber attack and/or they can invest resource in recovering from any attack. We introduce a new game called the prevention and recovery game to study this trade-off. We report results from the experimental lab that allow us to categorize different approaches to risk taking. We show that many individuals appear relatively risk loving in that they invest in recovery rather than prevention. We find little difference in behavior between a gain and loss framing.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Decision and Game Theory for Security - 10th International Conference, GameSec 2019, Proceedings
Editors	Tansu Alpcan, Yevgeniy Vorobeychik, John S. Baras, György Dán
Publisher	Springer
Pages	135-151
Number of pages	17
ISBN (Print)	9783030324292, 9783030324308
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32430-8_9
Publication status	E-pub ahead of print - 23 Oct 2019
Event	10th Conference on Decision and Game Theory for Security - Stockholm, Sweden Duration: 30 Oct 2019 → 1 Nov 2019 https://www.gamesec-conf.org/

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume	11836 LNCS
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

Conference

Conference	10th Conference on Decision and Game Theory for Security
Abbreviated title	GameSec 2019
Country/Territory	Sweden
City	Stockholm
Period	30/10/19 → 1/11/19
Internet address	https://www.gamesec-conf.org/

Keywords

Cyber-security
Insurance
Ransomware
Recovery
Risk aversion

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Theoretical Computer Science
General Computer Science

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Cartwright, A., Cartwright, E., & Xue, L. (2019). Investing in Prevention or Paying for Recovery - Attitudes to Cyber Risk. In T. Alpcan, Y. Vorobeychik, J. S. Baras, & G. Dán (Eds.), Decision and Game Theory for Security - 10th International Conference, GameSec 2019, Proceedings (pp. 135-151). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 11836 LNCS). Springer. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32430-8_9

Investing in Prevention or Paying for Recovery - Attitudes to Cyber Risk. / Cartwright, Anna; Cartwright, Edward; Xue, Lian.
Decision and Game Theory for Security - 10th International Conference, GameSec 2019, Proceedings. ed. / Tansu Alpcan; Yevgeniy Vorobeychik; John S. Baras; György Dán. Springer, 2019. p. 135-151 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 11836 LNCS).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference proceeding › peer-review

Cartwright, A, Cartwright, E & Xue, L 2019, Investing in Prevention or Paying for Recovery - Attitudes to Cyber Risk. in T Alpcan, Y Vorobeychik, JS Baras & G Dán (eds), Decision and Game Theory for Security - 10th International Conference, GameSec 2019, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), vol. 11836 LNCS, Springer, pp. 135-151, 10th Conference on Decision and Game Theory for Security , Stockholm, Sweden, 30/10/19. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32430-8_9

Cartwright A, Cartwright E, Xue L. Investing in Prevention or Paying for Recovery - Attitudes to Cyber Risk. In Alpcan T, Vorobeychik Y, Baras JS, Dán G, editors, Decision and Game Theory for Security - 10th International Conference, GameSec 2019, Proceedings. Springer. 2019. p. 135-151. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)). Epub 2019 Oct 23. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-32430-8_9

Cartwright, Anna ; Cartwright, Edward ; Xue, Lian. / Investing in Prevention or Paying for Recovery - Attitudes to Cyber Risk. Decision and Game Theory for Security - 10th International Conference, GameSec 2019, Proceedings. editor / Tansu Alpcan ; Yevgeniy Vorobeychik ; John S. Baras ; György Dán. Springer, 2019. pp. 135-151 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)).

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