The 17th Annual Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (WEIS 2018) Innsbruck, Austria, June 18-19, 2018 http://weis2018.econinfosec.org CALL FOR PAPERS Information security and privacy continue to grow in importance, as threats proliferate, privacy erodes, and attackers find new sources of value. Yet the security of information systems and the privacy offered by them depends on more than just technology. Each requires an understanding of the incentives and trade-offs inherent to the behavior of people and organizations. As society's dependence on information technology has deepened, policy-makers have taken notice. Now more than ever, careful research is needed to characterize accurately threats and countermeasures, in both the public and private sectors. The Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (WEIS) is the leading forum for interdisciplinary scholarship on information security and privacy, combining expertise from the fields of economics, social science, business, law, policy, and computer science. Prior workshops have explored the role of incentives between attackers and defenders of information systems, identified market failures surrounding Internet security, quantified risks of personal data disclosure, and assessed investments in cyber-defense. The 2018 workshop will build on past efforts using empirical and analytic tools not only to understand threats, but also to strengthen security and privacy through novel evaluations of available solutions. We encourage economists, computer scientists, legal scholars, business school researchers, security and privacy specialists, as well as industry experts to submit their research and participate by attending the workshop. Suggested topics include (but are not limited to) empirical and theoretical studies of: * Optimal investment in information security * Models and analysis of online crime (including botnets, ransomware, and underground markets) * Cyber-risk quantification and cyber-insurance * Security standards and regulation * Vulnerability discovery, disclosure, and patching * Incentives for information sharing and cooperation * Cyber-security policy * Economics of privacy and anonymity * Behavioral security and privacy * Incentives for and against pervasive monitoring threats * Cyber-defense strategy SUBMISSION Submitted manuscripts should represent significant and novel research contributions. WEIS has no formal formatting guidelines. Previous contributors spanned fields from economics and psychology to computer science and law, each with different norms and expectations about manuscript length and formatting. This year, authors have the option to submit their manuscripts in anonymized form for double-blind review. Advisable rules of thumb include: using past WEIS accepted papers as templates and adhering to your community's publication standards. Authors whose papers appear at the workshop will be invited to submit a revised version to a special issue of the Journal of Cybersecurity, an interdisciplinary open access journal published by Oxford University Press. Revised papers will undergo an additional round of peer review after the workshop, and accepted papers will appear in the special issue. Please note that publication charges must be paid to facilitate open access, but a publishing fund is available to authors whose institutions cannot pay. For more information please see http://cybersecurity.oxfordjournals.org/for_authors/index.htm . Submission Deadline: February 18, 2018 Notification of Acceptance: March 31, 2018 Final Papers Due: May 25, 2018 CONFERENCE CHAIR Rainer Böhme, University of Innsbruck PROGRAM COMMITTEE Alessandro Acquisti, Carnegie Mellon University Ross Anderson, Cambridge University Daniel Arce, UT Dallas Hadi Asghari, TU Delft Terrence August, UC San Diego Johannes Bauer, Michigan State University Joseph Bonneau, New York University Laura Brandimarte, University of Arizona Jean Camp, Indiana University Jonathan Cave, RAND Europe Huseyin Cavusoglu, University of Texas at Dallas Nicolas Christin, Carnegie Mellon University John Chuang, UC Berkeley Richard Clayton, University of Cambridge Ben Edelman, Harvard Business School Ben Edwards, IBM Research Serge Egelman, ICSI & UC Berkeley M. Eric Johnson, Vanderbilt University Allan Friedman, US Department of Commerce Neil Gandal, Tel Aviv University Dan Geer, In-Q-Tel Lawrence Gordon, University of Maryland Jens Grossklags, TU Munich Chad Heitzenrater, Air Force Research Laboratory Cormac Herley, Microsoft Research Kai-Lung Hui, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Aron Laszka, Vanderbilt University Martin Loeb, University of Maryland Thomas Maillart, University of Geneva Fabio Massacci, University of Trento Kanta Matsuura, University of Tokyo Damon McCoy, New York University Katerina Mitrokotsa, Chalmers University of Technology Tyler Moore, University of Tulsa Milton Mueller, Georgia Tech Arvind Narayanan, Princeton University Andrew Odlyzko, University of Minnesota Wolter Pieters, TU Delft David Pym, University College London Sam Ransbotham, Boston College Sasha Romanosky, RAND Rahul Telang, Carnegie Mellon University Catherine Tucker, MIT Michel van Eeten, Delft University of Technology Liad Wagman, Illinois Institute of Technology Julian Williams, Durham University Dmitry Zhdanov, Georgia State University