Cybersecurity

Language: English 
Consisting of 2 presentations

10:45 - 11:45 A STEP TOWARDS RATIONAL SECURITY DECISIONS

In economics, rational behaviour assumes that individuals always make decisions that provide them with the highest amount of personal utility. Correspondingly, a rational security decision at the firm level should result in maximum organisational utility. A step towards achieving rationality is recognising the benefits of security decisions (such as “decision to invest in security”). Unfortunately, it is not trivial to measure the benefits of these investments as they primarily result is cost savings.

In this talk, I introduce a few metrics that businesses can use to analyse their security investments and discuss how we can empirically measure the benefits of these investments. I show a few examples of how analysing the losses due to past cyber-attacks can help us strategize future investments. I also discuss the need for organisations to invest in communication channels which are resilient to cyber attacks and the impact of these channels in reducing the cost of an attack.

dr. A. Abhishta (Abhishta)
Assistant Professor

Increasing Internet security through use-inspired research

I will provide an overview of ongoing research projects at SIDN Labs, the research arm of the operator of the Netherlands' national top-level domain, .nl. Our projects aim to  increase the security of the core of the Internet and cover topics such as detecting potentially malicious domain names, collaborative DDoS mitigation and DNS resilience measurements. We typically conduct our research together with partners such as the University of Twente, the University of Southern California, Delft University of Technology, and NLnet Labs. We concentrate on use-inspired basic research, which for instance means that we focus on practical problems and that our results are generic and open source so that they can be used by a wide range of stakeholders, including SIDN itself to further improve its .nl services.

Christian Hesselman
Director of SIDN Labs

Cristian Hesselman directs SIDN Labs, the research arm of the operator of .nl top-level domain. His work focuses on advancing the security of the Internet to support our digital society. He is also a part-time professor at the University of Twente and chairs the board of directors of NLnet Labs.