Daniel Woods

Daniel Woods is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Innsbruck in Austria. He researches the economics of security and privacy focusing on cyber insurance, quantifying cyber risk, and privacy preference signals. He received his PhD from the Department of Computer Science at the University of Oxford.

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Cyber insurance

A Federal Cyber Insurance Backstop Is Premature

Daniel Woods Thu, Jan 19, 2023, 8:16 AM

A cyber backstop is unnecessary because firms conduct online activity regardless of whether insurance is available. Worryingly, a backstop could undermine insurers in incentivizing improved cybersecurity.

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Cybersecurity

Do the Legal Rules Governing the Confidentiality of Cyber Incident Response Undermine Cybersecurity?

Daniel Schwarcz, Josephine Wolff, Daniel Woods Wed, Jan 5, 2022, 8:01 AM

It’s not entirely clear to what extent law firms’ emphasis on protecting attorney-client privilege and work product immunity alters the course of data privacy investigations.

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