Game theory is a technique for modeling system behavior, given different potential scenarios and the decisions that can be made by participants. Whether you are on offense or defense, game theory could be a useful tool for deciphering the underlying system dynamics that help you predict what your competition is going to do, and likewise, the strategies you should adopt in order to win. In this session we’ll review how different scenarios can be interpreted and analyzed as games. We’ll then discuss how theories break-down in reality -- which is full of fuzzy payoffs and hidden motives -- and how theoretical frameworks provided by game theory can be tempered by more experimental approaches, borrowed from behavioral economics.
Allison Miller is Senior Director of Operations at Electronic Arts, where she oversees the business operations of EA's cross-company digital platform. Allison has over 10 years of experience in designing, building and deploying real-time threat detection and prevention systems. Miller is active in the security community and presents research on fraud prevention and account security issues regularly to both industry and government audiences, including the ITWeb Security Summit, Black Hat Briefings, SOURCE Conferences (Boston, Barcelona, Seattle), USENIX/Metricon, and RSA. Prior to joining EA, Miller led Tagged's Security & Risk Management team, managed PayPal's Account Risk & Security team and was Director of Product / Technology Risk at Visa International.