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1 J. Cybersecurity 1 (2015)

handle is hein.journals/jnlocybrs1 and id is 1 raw text is: hI$A 8F Qii Journal of Cybersecurity, 1(1), 2015, 1-2 doi: 10.1093/cybsec/tyv010 Advance Access Publication Date: 28 November 2015 Editorial Editorial Welcome from the Editors-in-Chief Cybersecurity is now widely recognized as essential by in- dividuals, firms, and governments. As society has grown more dependent on information systems and the Internet, the need for a secure and reliable cyber infrastructure is clear. As this need has spread beyond the domains of com- puting and information technology, the number of discip- lines contributing valuable perspectives has also expanded greatly. For instance, social scientists, lawyers, and policy scholars help improve our understanding of how people and institutions make decisions affecting security and priv- acy. Meanwhile, computer scientists, engineers, and crypt- ographers have begun designing secure technologies that take personal or institutional incentives into account. The goal of the Journal of Cybersecurity is to provide a common publication outlet for top-quality, high-impact re- search and scholarship that spans the many disciplines inves- tigating cybersecurity and privacy topics. The journal has been designed from the ground up to reflect the interdisciplin- ary nature of cybersecurity research, while ensuring disciplin- ary rigor in the articles we publish. To that end, we have appointed leaders across many disciplines as Area Editors. Their job is to coordinate peer review to ensure that papers published in the journal meet the disciplinary expectations of quality, while being written in such a way that the key results are accessible to those reading outside their specialty. To give the reader an idea of the wide coverage intended for the jour- nal, and the expertise of our area editors, we list them here: • Anthropological and Cultural Studies: Rick Wash, Michigan State University • Computer Science and Security: Andrew Martin, University of Oxford • Cryptography and Associated Topics: Emiliano De Cristofaro, University College London • Game Theory and Complex Systems: Jonathan Cave, University of Warwick • Economics of Information Security: Rahul Telang, Carnegie Mellon University • Human Factors and Usability: Angela Sasse, University College London • Legal Aspects of Information Security: Deirdre Mulligan, University of California at Berkeley • Political and Policy Perspectives: Susan Landau, Worcester Polytechnic Institute • Privacy: Alessandro Acquisti, Carnegie Mellon University • Security, Crime Science and Psychology: Michael Levi, Cardiff University • Replication Studies: Andrew Adams, Meiji University • Strategy and International Relations: Thomas Rid, King's College London Moreover, we have appointed an Advisory Board with experts from academia, government, and industry. Full de- tails can be found on the Journal's website http://cyberse- curity.oxfordjournals.org/. Because the Journal's goal is to publish highly relevant articles, of broad societal interest, we have adopted an Open Access model. All papers are made freely available online. Furthermore, we have established a publishing fund to ensure that authors who need to can obtain fee waivers. We thank our generous founding sponsors, who have contributed to the publishing fund and have helped ensure that articles published in the journal are freely ac- cessible to all. To celebrate the creation of the Journal, we are proud to have assembled an inaugural issue of excellent papers from leading scholars working in the area of cybersecurity and priv- acy. This issue demonstrates the great breadth of disciplinary perspectives that can contribute to our understanding of cyber- security issues. Disciplines represented include accounting, an- thropology, communications, computer science, criminology, cryptography, economics, game theory, international relations, and neuroscience. The authors include both rising stars in their home disciplines and senior leaders, including Turing Award winners. In the first article, Increasing Cybersecurity Investments in Private Sector Firms, Gordon, Loeb, Lucyshyn, and Zhou construct an economic model that evaluates how prospective government interventions might stimulate OThe Author 2015. Published by Oxford University Press. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com