Expert in Cybersecurity Economics and Internet Security Research
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Delft University of TechnologyCarlos H. Gañán serves as Assistant Professor in the Economics of Cybersecurity group at TU Delft's Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management, bringing expertise from his Ph.D. from UPC Barcelona and business studies from the Open University of Catalonia. His research combines big data analytics and network science methods to understand cybersecurity problems, focusing particularly on the interplay between technology evolution, economics, and society in Internet of Things security. His work has earned significant recognition, including the NDSS 2019 Distinguished Paper Award for research on IoT botnet removal. Through empirical analysis and socio-technical approaches, he studies how economic factors influence security threat responses, aiming to increase societal resilience through improved institutional and incentive structures. His research spans from privacy-preserving mechanisms in vehicular networks to measuring cybercrime impact, contributing to a better understanding of information security governance.