Are information security professionals expected value maximizers?: An experiment and survey-based test
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Are information security professionals expected value maximizers?: An experiment and survey-based test
Information security professionals have to assess risk in order to make investment decisions on security measures. To investigate whether professionals make such decisions optimally, we conduct an online experiment and survey measuring risk attitudes of security professionals. Participants were asked to state their willingness-topay to avoid a series of losses-only lotteries and to make choices...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Cybersecurity
سال: 2016
ISSN: 2057-2085,2057-2093
DOI: 10.1093/cybsec/tyw009