The protection of assets, including IT resources, intellectual property and business processes, against security attacks has become a challenging task for organizations. From an economic perspective, rms need to minimize the probability of a successful security incident or attack while staying within the boundaries of their information security budget in order to optimize their investment strat...

Most articles that discuss the economics of security focus on the use of rational choice decision models for evaluating investment alternatives. However, security investment decisions involve risk and several researchers have noted that risk related decisions often violate the fundamental principles of rational choice decision models. Accordingly, we assert that problems exist with using these ...

this study examined the status and determinants of rural households’ food security in moyale district of pastoral area, oromia regional state, in ethiopia. both secondary and primary data were used for the study. the study was based on the survey of a total of 100 farmers randomly selected using a three-stage sampling technique. analytical tools used include descriptive statistics, foster-greer...

China’s pension system is facing a large gap of more than one trillion RMB. The investment efficiency of the social security fund therefore receives widespread attention in academic circles. We collected data of stocks held by the Chinese National Council for Social Security Fund (CNCSSF) from 2004 to 2012 to research the stocks’ investment efficiency, distinguishing between direct investment b...

The study on gender and net farm income of cassava-based farmers under individual land tenure system was done in Abia State of Nigeria. The main objective was to determine the Net Farm Income (NFI) and the Benefit Cost Ratio (BCR) of the cassava farmers by gender vis-aviz their income levels as well as food security in the state. A multi-stage random sampling technique was adopted while data we...

We devise a model for security investment that reflects dynamic interaction between a defender, who faces uncertainty, and an attacker, who repeatedly targets the weakest link. Using the model, we derive and compare optimal security investment over multiple periods, exploring the delicate balance between proactive and reactive security investment. We show how the best strategy depends on the de...

Information technology security investment is receiving increasing attention in recent years. Various methods have been proposed to determine the effective level of security investment. In this paper, we introduce an extreme value approach to address the issues of effective budgeting and investing in IT security. In our model, the security status of a system depends on two factors: system secur...

The information and data security communities and their individual practitioners have long experienced the pedagogical difficulties in communicating to management or funding bodies the importance and relevance of sufficient investments in information and data security. Inside these communities there is almost universal agreement that companies under invest in security. One reason for this pedag...

This study examined the status and determinants of rural households’ food security in Moyale district of pastoral area, Oromia regional state, in Ethiopia. Both secondary and primary data were used for the study. The study was based on the survey of a total of 100 farmers randomly selected using a three-stage sampling technique. Analytical tools used include descriptive statistics, Foster-Greer...

Purpose: The aim of the study was to investigate Agricultural Investment and Food Security.
 Methodology: This adopted a desk methodology. A research design is commonly known as secondary data collection. basically collecting from existing resources preferably because its low cost advantage compared field research. Our current looked into already published studies reports easily accessed t...