Dr. Markus Riek
Former Member

E-mailmarkus.riek@uibk.ac.at
Dr. Markus Riek

Research Interests

  • Economics of information security
  • Cybercrime
  • Risk analysis
  • Consumer research

Positions

04/2018 – 03/2019 Educational leave (Bildungskarenz)
11/2017 – 03/2018 Postdoctoral Fellow, Security and Privacy Lab, Department of Computer Science, University of Innsbruck, Austria
03/2015 – 10/2017 Research Assistant, Department of Computer Science, University of Innsbruck, Austria
09/2013 – 02/2015 Research Assistant, Department of Information Systems, University of Münster, Germany
10/2013 – 01/2014 Visiting Scholar, Computer Science and Engineering Department, Southern Methodist University, TX, USA
04/2011 – 08/2012 Graduate Student Assistant, Institute of Medical Informatics, University of Münster, Germany
03/2010 – 03/2011 Student Assistant, Institute of Medical Informatics, University of Münster, Germany

Education

11/2017 Ph.D. (Dr. rer. pol.) in Information Systems, University of Münster, Germany
2013 – 2017 Ph.D. studies in Information Systems, University of Münster, Germany
2011 – 2013 M.Sc. in Information Systems, University of Münster, Germany
2007 – 2011 B.Sc. in Information Systems, University of Münster, Germany

Publications

  • Riek, M. and Böhme, R. The Costs of Consumer-Facing Cybercrime: An Empirical Exploration of Measurement Issues and Estimates. Journal of Cybersecurity, 4, 1 (2018). [Publisher]
  • Riek, M., Abramova, S., and Böhme, R. Analyzing Persistent Impact of Cybercrime on the Societal Level: Evidence for Individual Security Behavior. In Proceedings of the Thirty Eigths International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS). Seoul, Korea, 2017. [PDF]
  • Böhme, R., Laube, S., and Riek, M. A Fundamental Approach to Cyber Risk Analysis. Variance, 12, 2 (2019), 161–185. [PDF] [Publisher]
  • Riek, M., Böhme, R., Ciere, M., Ganan, C., and van Eeten, M. Estimating the Costs of Consumer-facing Cybercrime: A Tailored Instrument and Representative Data for Six EU Countries. In Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (WEIS). University of California at Berkeley, 2016. [Publisher]
  • Riek, M., Böhme, R., and Moore, T. Measuring the Influence of Perceived Cybercrime Risk on Online Service Avoidance. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, 13, 2 (2016), 261–273. [Publisher]
  • Riek, M., Böhme, R., and Moore, T. Understanding the Influence of Cybercrime Risk on the E-Service Adoption of European Internet Users. In Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (WEIS). The Pennsylvania State University, State College, Pennsylvania, 2014.

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