Costs to the U.S. Economy of Information Infrastructure Failures
Topics: Finance Infrastructure
M. Eric Johnson, Eva Andrijcic
Proceedings of the Fifth WEIS, 2006
The increasing reliance of the U.S. economy on the information infrastructure has raised questions regarding the security and robustness of the critical information infrastructure at all levels of the economy, ranging from individuals in small firms facing very practical concerns to national figures facing equally pressing policy issues. Until recently, these individuals have had to rely mainly on speculation for guidance as empirical studies of the economic risks faced by individual firms and larger economic entities were unavailable. This lack of data concerning these issues was the original impetus for the studies presented in this paper.
