Heterogeneous wireless networks (HWNs) composed of densely deployed base stations of different types with various radio access technologies have become a prevailing trend to accommodate ever-increasing traffic demand in enormous volume. Nowadays, users rely heavily on HWNs for ubiquitous network access that contains valuable and critical information such as financial transactions, e-health, and...

For many individuals and organizations, cyber-insurance is the most practical and only way of handling a major financial impact of an information security event. However, the cyber-insurance market suffers from the problem of information asymmetry, lack of product diversity, illiquidity, high transaction cost, and so on. On the other hand, in theory, capital market-based financial instruments c...

In Internet security, traditional protection mechanisms such as anti-virus software, firewalls, and other add-ons are not capable of completely eliminating security risks [3]. As noted in [7], the management of information security needs to be addressed through economic, psychological, and policymaking approaches, in combination with engineering approaches. As a realistic and futuristic solutio...

In this theoretical review paper, the authors discuss five important issues about the science of cyber behavior as a field of scientific research. First, they argue that the science of cyber behavior as a field of research is entering its adolescence after growing from its childhood, but before spearheading into its adulthood. The paper reviews the current understanding of human behavior in gen...

The literature on marketing productivity shows the absence of a measurement of the commonly accepted term, especially in the case of quantitative measures and in the measurement of the influence of marketing assets on company issues. This paper proposes a Theoretical Model of Marketing Productivity (TMMP), useful as a base to measure marketing productivity in services. The model is validated in...

We develop a novel approach for pricing cyber insurance contracts. The considered cyber threats, such as viruses and worms, diffuse in a structured data network. The spread of the cyber infection is modeled by an interacting Markov chain. Conditional on the underlying infection, the occurrence and size of claims are described by a marked point process. We introduce and analyze a new polynomial ...

In recent years there has been a growing stream of research focusing on cyber-insurance. Risk transference with insurance has been suggested by both practitioners and academics to absorb losses caused by security breaches as well as to supplement the existing set of security tools to manage IT security residual risk after IT security investments are made. In this paper, we investigate pricing o...

Recent works on Internet risk management have proposed the idea of cyber-insurance to eliminate risks due to security threats, which cannot be tackled through traditional means such as by using antivirus and antivirus softwares. In reality, an Internet user faces risks due to security attacks as well as risks due to non-security related failures (e.g., reliability faults in the form of hardware...

Internet users such as individuals and organizations are subject to different types of epidemic risks such as worms, viruses, spams, and botnets. To reduce the probability of risk, an Internet user generally invests in traditional security mechanisms like anti-virus and anti-spam software, sometimes also known as self-defense mechanisms. However, according to security experts, such software (an...

Current cyber-insurance research community has mainly focussed about studying the market success of an insurance-driven security ecosystem. Such an ecosystem comprises of several market elements like cyber-insurers, ISPs, network users (individuals and organizations), security vendors (SVs), regulatory agencies, etc.,which coexist with the goal of mutually satisfying one’s interests in order to...