Last month I attended my first Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (WEIS 2010) at Harvard. It reminded me that I probably spent too much time playing ice hockey and learning martial arts during graduate school, and not enough time taking advantage of the “Hah-vahd experience” I think economics will help mitigate many security problems, but some researchers need to visit living, breathing enterprise environments before publishing papers. After spending two days with academics, I’d like to add to Allan Schiffman’s famous phrase “Amateurs study cryptography; professionals study economics”:”]
Source: https://taosecurity.blogspot.com/2010/07/brief-thoughts-on-weis-2010.html