FuturesMEX: Secure Distributed Futures Market Exchange (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Massacci, F., Ngo, C., Nie, J., Venturi, D., & Williams, J. (2018). FuturesMEX: Secure Distributed Futures Market Exchange. In 2018 IEEE symposium on security and privacy SP 2018 (335-353). https://doi.org/10.1109/sp.2018.00028

In a Futures-Exchange, such as the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, traders buy and sell contractual promises (futures) to acquire or deliver, at some future pre-specified date, assets ranging from wheat to crude oil and from bacon to cash in a desired c... Read More about FuturesMEX: Secure Distributed Futures Market Exchange.

Non-Monotonic Security Protocols and Failures in Financial Intermediation (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Massacci, F., Ngo, C., Venturi, D., & Williams, J. (in press). Non-Monotonic Security Protocols and Failures in Financial Intermediation.

The seconomics (security-economics) vulnerabilities of Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Massacci, F., Ngo, C., Nie, J., Venturi, D., & Williams, J. (2017). The seconomics (security-economics) vulnerabilities of Decentralized Autonomous Organizations. In F. Stajano, J. Anderson, B. Christianson, & V. Matyáš (Eds.), Security protocols XXV : 25th international workshop, Cambridge, UK, March 20-22, 2017 : revised selected papers (171-179). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71075-4_19

Traditionally, security and economics functionalities in IT financial services and protocols (FinTech) have been perceived as separate objectives. We argue that keeping them separate is a bad idea for FinTech “Decentralized Autonomous Organizations”... Read More about The seconomics (security-economics) vulnerabilities of Decentralized Autonomous Organizations.

Investments and Trade-offs in the Economics of Information Security. (2009)
Conference Proceeding
Ioannidis, C., Pym, D., & Williams, J. (2009). Investments and Trade-offs in the Economics of Information Security. In R. Dingledine, & P. Golle (Eds.), Financial cryptography and data security: 13th International Conference, FC 2009, Accra Beach, Barbados, February 23-26, 2009: revised selected papers (148-166). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03549-4_9

We develop and simulate a dynamic model of investment in information security. The model is based on the recognition that both IT managers and users appreciate the trade-off between two of the fundamental characteristics of information security, name... Read More about Investments and Trade-offs in the Economics of Information Security..