Security Economics

Ransomware Economics 201

In my previous post I outlined why the most cost-effective way to recover from a ransomware attack is to pay

Recently, travel management company CWT became yet another victim of a ransomware attack. The company paid the attackers over 400

In 2002, Donald Rumsfeld, who was the US Secretary of Defense at the time, was asked a question about the

It hit me as I stepped outside the Reagan National Airport terminal. Just five hours earlier I’d been in the

In the year 1900 Americans spent 43% of their income on food. Almost half of all Americans worked on farms.

In 1984, the movie Red Dawn depicted a group of high school students who attempt to fight back a Soviet

Bob Woodward: Hunt’s come in from the cold. Supposedly he’s got a lawyer with $25,000 in a brown paper bag.

In 1995, Netscape became one of the first Internet-era companies to go public with no earnings. In one of the

In 1819 Washington Irving penned a story of a man named Rip Van Winkle, who, after drinking some liquor offered

In 1799, a stockbroker named David Ricardo read Adam Smith’s economics classic, The Wealth of Nations. The book fueled Ricardo’s