Economics and Optimal Investment Policies of Attackers and Defenders in Cybersecurity. (arXiv:2207.09497v1 [cs.CR])

In our time cybersecurity has grown to be a topic of massive proportion at
the national and enterprise levels. Our thesis is that the economic perspective
and investment decision-making are vital factors in determining the outcome of
the struggle. To build our economic framework, we borrow from the pioneering
work of Gordon and Loeb in which the Defender optimally trades-off investments
for lower likelihood of its system breach. Our two-sided model additionally has
an Attacker, assumed to be rational and …

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