Daniel W. Woods
Informatics Forum
10 Crichton St
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
I research the economics of cybersecurity and privacy, focusing on:
- Cyber insurance
- Digital risk management
- Cyber risk quantification
- Incident response
- How the legal system impacts cybersecurity
- Privacy preference signals
- 0-Day exploit brokers and prices
I am a Lecturer in Cybersecurity at the University of Edinburgh’s School of Informatics. My academic position is jointly appointed by the British University in Dubai, which means I periodically head out there to teach and collaborate.
Looking further back, I completed my PhD at the University of Oxford, supervised by Andy Simpson. During the PhD, I visited the Security Economics Lab at the University of Tulsa on a Fulbright Scholar Award to work with Tyler Moore. After the PhD, I did a postdoc (and a lot of skiing/cycling) at the University of Innsbruck in the Security and Privacy Lab, led by Rainer Böhme.
news
| Jun 6, 2023 | I will present a talk titled “Lemons and Liability: Cyber Warranties as an Experiment in Software Regulation” at BlackHat 2023. |
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| Apr 6, 2023 | My paper titled “Personal Identity Insurance: Coverage and Pricing in the US” was published in the Journal of Financial Transformation . |
| Mar 6, 2023 | My paper titled “A Turning Point for Cyber Insurance” was published in the Communications of the ACM. |
| Oct 17, 2022 | Our paper titled “Lessons Lost: Incident Response in the Age of Cyber Insurance and Breach Attorneys” was accepted to USENIX Security. |
| Sep 18, 2022 | Rachiyta Jain joined the PRINSUR project as a research associate. |
selected publications
- Lessons Lost: Incident Response in the Age of Cyber Insurance and Breach AttorneysUSENIX Security Symposium 2023
- The County Fair Cyber Loss Distribution: Drawing Inference from Insurance PricesDigital Threats: Research and Practice 2021