This book offers
readers essential orientation on cybersecurity safeguards, and first and
foremost helps them find the right balance between financial expenditures and
risk mitigation. This is achieved by pursuing a multi-disciplinary approach that
combines well-founded methods from economics and the computer sciences.
Established decision making techniques are embedded into a walk-through for the
complete lifecycle of cybersecurity investments. Insights into the economic aspect
of the costs and benefits of cybersecurity are supplemented by established and
innovative economic indicators. Readers will find practical tools and techniques
to support reasonable decision making in cybersecurity investments. Further,
they will be equipped to encourage a common understanding using economic
aspects, and to provide cost transparency for the senior management.