[Dailydave] Faster, smashter. (fwd)

[Charles Miller]

I wrote some about this too:

http://weis2007.econinfosec.org/papers/29.pdf

I like the idea of a derivative market.  Its the only way I've heard  
where you can make money by dropping 0-days on full disclosure, for  
example.  The drawback is that I know I can make 100k for my IE  
exploit, but I don't know how much I can make by buying the "IE sucks"  
derivative.  There will only be so many people willing to buy the "IE  
is rock solid" one and once I start buying up the "IE sucks" one, it  
will be even harder to make a big score.

Charlie


On Dec 10, 2008, at 1:40 AM, Thorsten Holz wrote:

> On Dec 10, 2008, at 3:19 AM, sinan.eren at immunitysec.com wrote:
>
>> I would appreciate ideas to tie the value of a vulnerability to a
>> premium, any
>> quants who do security as well ?
>
>
> Rainer Böhme discussed the idea of exploit derivatives and cyber-
> insurances in a talk at CCC'05: http://events.ccc.de/congress/2005/fahrplan/events/801.en.html
> There is also a paper from the Workshop on the Economics of
> Information Security (WEIS 2005), in which Böhme discusses these ideas
> in more detail: http://infosecon.net/workshop/pdf/15.pdf
>
> Pretty interesting concept, but some obstacles need to be taken when
> implementing such a market (monoculture, correlation of attacks and
> such).
>
> Cheers,
>   Thorsten
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