Individual Career Versus Corporate Security: A Simulation of CSO Investment Choices

David Baschung (), Sébastien Gillard (), Jean-Claude Metzger () and Marcus M. Keupp ()
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David Baschung: D-MTEC, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
Sébastien Gillard: Military Academy at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
Jean-Claude Metzger: Hemotune AG
Marcus M. Keupp: Military Academy at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich

Chapter Chapter 11 in Cyberdefense, 2023, pp 163-181 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract For corporate security officers (CSOs), investment decisions about IT security are more challenging than microeconomic models would suggest. Large budgets are not necessarily associated with effective corporate protection, whereas cybersecurity breaches negatively affect individual career prospects irrespective of prior investments. In this chapter we build on the Gordon-Loeb model to develop a recursive model which simulates investment dynamics, CSO reputation and inter-firm migration as well as cyberdefense effectiveness. We argue that a positive (negative) dynamic should exist between high (low) CSO reputation and effective corporate protection, and we simulate this hypothesized relationship by a Monte Carlo process which uses data from real cybersecurity breaches.

Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-30191-9_11

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