Economically Complex Cyberattacks
Topics: Finance
Scott Borg
IEEE Security and Privacy
Most people working in cybersecurity recognize that the interconnections and complexities of our economy can have a huge effect on the destructiveness of cyberattacks. They refer casually to “network effects,” “spillover effects,” or “knock-on effects.” Yet there is little understanding of how such effects actually work, what conditions are necessary to create them, or how to quantify their consequences.
