Title :
Estimating Potential IT Security Losses: An Alternative Quantitative Approach
Author :
Lee, Victor C. S. ; Shao, Linyi
Author_Institution :
Monash University
Abstract :
In a highly network-centric open economy, network-based information plays a pivotal role in all business firms and institutional organizations. The authors have developed a novel model for implementing quantitative measurement of possible IT security losses by mining records of port scan data.
Keywords :
Computer security; Cost benefit analysis; Current measurement; Data security; Frequency estimation; Information analysis; Information security; Investments; Loss measurement; Risk management; jump diffusion process; port scan data; quantitative measuring of IT security loss;
Journal_Title :
Security & Privacy, IEEE
DOI :
70B63DBB-3F70-4533-B65E-A5C913492315
