Using Financial Instruments to Transfer the Information Security Risks

Pankaj Pandey and Einar Snekkenes
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Pankaj Pandey: Norwegian Information Security Lab., Gjøvik University College, Teknologivn 22, 2815 Gjøvik, Norway
Einar Snekkenes: Norwegian Information Security Lab., Gjøvik University College, Teknologivn 22, 2815 Gjøvik, Norway

Future Internet, 2016, vol. 8, issue 2, 1-62

Abstract: For many individuals and organizations, cyber-insurance is the most practical and only way of handling a major financial impact of an information security event. However, the cyber-insurance market suffers from the problem of information asymmetry, lack of product diversity, illiquidity, high transaction cost, and so on. On the other hand, in theory, capital market-based financial instruments can provide a risk transfer mechanism with the ability to absorb the adverse impact of an information security event. Thus, this article addresses the limitations in the cyber-(re)insurance markets with a set of capital market-based financial instruments. This article presents a set of information security derivatives, namely options, vanilla options, swap, and futures that can be traded at an information security prediction market. Furthermore, this article demonstrates the usefulness of information security derivatives in a given scenario and presents an evaluation of the same in comparison with cyber-insurance. In our analysis, we found that the information security derivatives can at least be a partial solution to the problems in the cyber-insurance markets. The information security derivatives can be used as an effective tool for information elicitation and aggregation, cyber risk pricing, risk hedging, and strategic decision making for information security risk management.

Keywords: information security; risk management; financial instruments; prediction markets; hedging; derivatives; security economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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