NYU Tandon Professor Justin Cappos in the news: As Russian troops attack Ukraine, experts are warning that Vladimir Putin could also seize the opportunity to deploy Russia’s trove of cyber-weapons to hack America’s infrastructure. Please click the title of this post to read this article from Yahoo! Finance.

This virtual event will feature a star lineup of women speakers from government, the private sector and academia for an interdisciplinary discussion of the legal, policy, technological and ethical issues regarding these key concerns. MS CRS Professor Judi Germano will moderate the session. Click the link of this post to register!

CSAW is the most comprehensive student-run cyber security event in the world, featuring 8 cyber competitions, workshops, and industry events. This event is organized by the NYU Center for Cybersecurity. Click the title of this post to register!

Trusted Computing Group announced a new work group that will define how TCG technologies can be implemented to address supply chain security challenges. Michael (VP at Goldman Sachs) is Co-Chair of the new work group.

Jacob Helberg’s (MS CRS ’20) The Wires of War: Technology and the Global Struggle for Power, was published on October 12 by the Avid Reader Press imprint of Simon & Schuster. In addition to providing technical background on cybersecurity, the book outlines his views on the current tensions between the United States and China.  Helberg, […]

This session will focus on why data science is fundamental to building a successful and mature cybersecurity program, and what the implications are for cybersecurity professionals. MS CRS Professor Damon McCoy will participate as a panelist. Click the title of this post to register.

This virtual symposium explores how the law must adapt to promote innovation while addressing serious questions around the development and use of AI in the United States and globally. Click the title of this post to register.

Join MS CRS Faculty Director Randy Milch and David Raviv (Forbes Technology Council, The Cyber Guild, NY Information Security Meetup Founder) for a live LinkedIn fireside chat on Tuesday, August 17th. Visit David Raviv’s LinkedIn profile (linked in the title of this post) to set a reminder for this conversation.

MS CRS Professor Rob Silvers was sworn in on August 10th, 2021 as DHS Under Secretary for the Office of Strategy, Policy, and Plans. Silvers is the latest member of the NYU community to join the Biden Administration.

In this piece, MS CRS Professor Ed Amoroso (NYU Tandon) argues that the key to preventing cyberattacks on US infrastructure lies in our nation’s history. Click the title of this post to read Professor Amoroso’s recommendations and best practices.

To learn more about the type of work and research that our MS CRS students are completing in the Emerging Innovations in Cybersecurity course, please click the title of this post. These student papers cover topics such as 5G, disinformation, AI, nation state cyberattacks, and more.

Lisa Monaco, Deputy Attorney General for the US Department of Justice, Distinguished Senior Fellow for the NYU Law Reiss Center on Law and Security, and MS CRS guest speaker delivers remarks on the recent Darkside attack on Colonial Pipeline. Click the title of this post to read the transcript.

MS CRS Professors Ed Amoroso (NYU Tandon) and Randy Milch (NYU Law) co-wrote a piece for Just Security, focused on the attempts by the FBI to patch infected private servers. Click the link of this post to learn more about the technical and legal risks involved.

Click the title of this post to REGISTER. Join MS CRS Professor Randy Milch, current MS CRS student Congressman William Timmons, and Congressman Mike Gallagher in a discussion of Professor Milch’s call for Congress to create a new post-breach cybersecurity privilege in “What’s Good for Litigation isn’t Necessarily Good for Cybersecurity.”

Click the title of this post to REGISTER. Join a virtual panel of distinguished speakers, including several MS CRS faculty as they discuss the massive SolarWinds cybersecurity breach. The panelists will deliberate what happened, who is responsible, and impacts for the public + private sector.

This virtual panel of experts will address the growing problem of dis- and misinformation, and discuss solutions to help increase transparency, understanding, and trust, while also protecting privacy concerns and freedom of expression. This event will be moderated by MS CRS Professor Judi Germano. Click to register.

NYU Tandon Data Future Lab’s virtual series will bring together experts, innovators, funders, and founders for a discussion on authoritarian tech, the industry landscape and impact, the solutions emerging, the role of the government as regulator and client, and more. Click the title of this post to register.

“Privacy 2021” will bring together women leaders for a critical conversation on data transparency and security, navigating international regulations, remote workforce programs, employer contact tracing issues, and more. MS CRS Professor Judi Germano is moderating the virtual panel. Click the title of this post to register.

Professor Germano’s 2019 report for the American Water Works Association noted the cyber and national security vulnerabilities of water systems and small municipal agencies. These warnings are timely in the wake of the 2021 cyber hack on one of Florida’s water systems. Click the title of this post to read the full report.

The 2021 TAG Cyber Security annual includes articles and best practices relating to government and business, interviews with cyber experts, and analyst reports. Follow the link in the title of this post to download your free copy.

This year’s conference, hosted by the NYU Center for Cybersecurity, will bring together prominent women in the cybersecurity field for a conversation about public health, insider threats, algorithmic bias, and more. Join us on 12/9 to hear from MS CRS professor Judi Germano and all of the expert panelists.

Five MS CRS Class of 2020 graduates presented their capstone research “Biological Stuxnet” Law and Technology Around Nation-State Attacks on IoT Medical Devices and Genetic Data.”

In this Q&A, featured in the NYU Reiss Center on Law and Security’s “Novel Threats” series, faculty Director Randy Milch discusses issues of privacy and the existing cybersecurity regulatory structure.

In the NYU Reiss Center on Law and Security’s “Novel Threats: National Security and the Coronavirus Pandemic” series, MS CRS Professor Judi Germano discusses misinformation and other threats posed by the pandemic.

MS CRS Faculty members Damon McCoy, Randy Milch, Joel Caminer, and Nasir Memon talk with the NYU Center for Cybersecurity about critical issues in cybersecurity across a range of industries.

The first graduates of NYU’s interdisciplinary master’s program discuss how it went – and whether it was worth the price.

“Protecting the public from the most pressing terrorist threat “has been our governing principle for many years now,” said Lisa Monaco, who served as the top counterterrorism adviser to President Barack Obama. Given the surge in attacks linked to the far right, she said, “we need to prioritize our resources and focus on this threat.”

Senior Fellow Lisa Monaco tells Axios: “We are fooling ourselves if we think that we can do this alone, that it’s only about what happens within the borders of our country.”

Headlines and horror stories establish that cybersecurity and data privacy must be top priorities for industry and government.  Yet too many organizations remain in reactive mode rather than taking sufficient proactive steps to prioritize cybersecurity and prepare for security incidents.  Companies increasingly are judged by clients, customers and the public, as well as by regulators and […]

Ursula Burns made history as the first African American woman to lead a Fortune 500 company when she became CEO of Xerox in 2009. Her journey from a tough childhood in public housing to the top of this multibillion-dollar organisation is an inspirational one for many….Burns was an excellent student at Cathedral High School, a Catholic […]

Event showcases how NYU Tandon is solving tomorrow’s problems and closing the STEM gender gap

No student at NYU Tandon needs to be convinced about the value of an engineering degree. For anyone wanting a career as a cybersecurity specialist, designer of transportation systems, roboticist, or a plethora of other jobs, engineering school is the natural first step. But what about doctor, dentist, veterinarian, nurse, pharmacist, or physical therapist? Alexandra […]

When the Association for a Better New York (ABNY) hosted a March 11 panel on the changing face of engineering, it was readily apparent that the face to which they were referring is, more and more, a female one. The panel, moderated by Google Chief Information Officer Ben Fried, was assembled in recognition of the fact that […]

Video is taking over the internet, a fact that can be corroborated by identifying who’s hogging the web. Netflix alone is responsible for 15 percent of global internet traffic, according to a report published by bandwidth management company Sandvine. A key player in the staggering oligopoly that Netflix and its competitors have created is Tony Jebara, […]

Tandon Engineers Are Partnering With Clinicians to Help Make Disease Prediction, Diagnosis, and Treatment More Effective Than Ever

Iddo Drori, CDS Adjunct Associate Professor, Kyunghyun Cho, Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Data Science, Claudio Silvaand Juliana Freire, Professors of Data Science, Computer Science, and Engineering, Remi Rampin, CDS Research Engineer, and Yamuna Krishnamurthy, Raoni de Paula Lourenco, Jorge Piazentin, NYU Tandon School of Engineering, contributed to the recent paper, AlphaD3M: Machine Learning Pipeline Synthesis. 

With the worldwide market for 3D-printed parts now a $5 billion business, interest in the field is booming among members of industry, academia, and even the general public. One of the major sectors vying to remain on the cutting edge of additive manufacturing (AM), as 3D printing is also known, is aerospace, and as the editors […]

Kurt Becker, NYU Tandon’s Vice Dean for Research, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship, is among a group of prominent plasma scientists from the U.S., Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic, Italy, Slovenia, Japan, and Australia who published a seminal report on the Future of Plasma Science and Plasma Technology.  The study, published in the journal Plasma Processes and Polymers, […]

… It is long past time for gender barriers to fall in our field. … We should care because research shows that diversity makes us smarter and diverse groups perform better. We should care because we are scientists, and scientists respond to research. … 

To help cerebral palsy patients get the needed therapeutic braces and prosthetics that insurance companies can be reluctant to pay for, experts and innovators from New York University are collaborating on a new, low-cost approach to custom hand orthotics. The collaboration is coming together in the NYU Tandon School of Engineering’s MakerSpace, a cutting-edge laboratory designed […]

… Taught by a diverse staff of leading academics and practitioners, AIFI’s course will teach the theory and practical implementation of artificial intelligence and machine learning tools in investment management. … AIFI faculty will be composed of luminaries including: Igor Halperin, PhD, Research Professor at NYU Tandon.

BROOKLYN, New York, Weekday, December 12, 2018 – Researchers from the New York University Tandon School of Engineering and Politecnico di Torino, Italy, have developed a mathematical model that could cure the potential to underestimate how quickly diseases spread. The team discovered that current predictive models may miss the influence of a critical aspect of the […]

BROOKLYN, New York, Wednesday, December 5, 2018 – The New York University Tandon School of Engineering’s Financial Engineering master’s degree program has b­een named among the top ten in the 2019 QuantNet ranking.

Election tampering, Facebook data harvesting, and other privacy breaches have stoked political and personal safety concerns and undermined faith in the cyber-structures that increasingly control modern life. What can individuals do to protect themselves against these attacks? And what amount of privacy are people willing to forfeit for increased security?

ConEd’s Cybersecurity Team Speaks to Students about Career Opportunities

NYU Tandon School of Engineering and Agari Develop a Free Visualization Tool to Bring Cyber Criminals to Justice

“… How to move from pilot projects to large-scale initiatives is one of the challenges addressed by the II World Data Forum of the UN , which … brings together more than 2,000 data specialists from the public sector, private, academic and civil society in Dubai. … The co-founder of the Governance Laboratory (GovLab) of […]

“Multiple institutions of higher education will be playing a big role in Cyber NYC, a $30 million initiative launched by the New York City Economic Development Corp. to make New York a worldwide hub for cybersecurity innovation. City University of New York (CUNY), Columbia University, New York University and Cornell Tech will be in charge […]

Anima Anandkumar, Bren professor of computing and mathematical sciences at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and Director of Research in Machine Learning at NVIDIA offered her insights on data, algorithms and cloud Infrastructure — the three pillars of artificial intelligence — for developing scalable and easily available datasets for training systems.

Giuseppe Loianno Wins National American Italian Foundation’s Young Investigator Award

University Research Center C2SMART and NYC’s Department of Transportation Will Bring Together Experts to Discuss Real-World Impacts and Challenges

Kai-Fu Lee, considered a “rock star in the world of Artificial Intelligence” visits Tandon to deliver a lecture on everything AI.

“Former CIA Director Gen. David Petraeus and former White House Homeland Security adviser Lisa Monaco assess America’s cybersecurity posture and the cyber priorities of the Trump administration and Congress.”

Deadly diseases like Ebola and the avian flu are only one flight away. The U.S. government must start taking preparedness seriously.

We are excited to announce that Lisa Monaco, chief homeland security and counterterrorism advisor to President Barack Obama, will be serving as an Advisor to Lyft on trust and safety for our community, bringing unmatched experience as we continue to work to ensure that safety is prioritized in each and every ride.

Professor Jason Schultz on how to protect consumer data, how artificial intelligence will change the legal profession, and why he stopped using Facebook.

“Freedom Watch’s complaint cites YouTube’s decision to ban conservative pundit Alex Jones’s InfoWars channel as one example of how social media is suppressing conservative content. Apple and Facebook took similar actions against InfoWars with all three companies citing their user policies in doing so. Twitter temporarily banned Jones’s account. Those companies couldn’t have avoided noticing […]

“When the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted to repeal net neutrality rules in December 2017, it was the latest but hardly the last move in a hotly contested battle over regulating Internet service providers (ISPs). Professor Christopher Jon Sprigman wrote an amicus brief aimed at overturning the net neutrality repeal on behalf of members of Congress. Sen. […]

Jake Tapper is joined by former Homeland Security and counterterrorism adviser to President Obama Lisa Monaco, former Director of National Intelligence General James Clapper, and former CIA and NSA Director General Michael Hayden to discuss President Trump’s decision to remove John Brennan’s security clearance and the President’s recent response to the Russia investigation.

““Over whatever number of years we have put about $80 billion into Egypt. Most of the time, this is the kind of government they had—almost all of the time. And the reality is, no matter how much I wish it was different, it ain’t going to be different tomorrow.” These words, spoken by former Secretary of State […]

“Not all security threats are born from bad intentions. U.S. and global leaders aren’t paying nearly enough attention to the threat from infectious disease, contends Lisa Monaco, homeland security adviser to President Obama: “As Homeland Security and Counterterrorism Advisor, I worried about bad actors doing something awful with a bomb, a piece of malware or a […]

“WASHINGTON — The special counsel investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election issued an indictment of 12 Russian intelligence officers on Friday in the hacking of the Democratic National Committee and the Clinton presidential campaign. The indictment came only three days before President Trump was planning to meet with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia […]

“Americans hoping for stronger data privacy protections may find a foe in Brett Kavanaugh, President Donald Trump’s nominee to replace Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy. As a justice on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, he dissented against his colleagues’ 2017 decision to uphold net neutrality, the Obama-era regulation requiring internet service providers such as Comcast, Verizon and AT&T to treat […]

““I think that the police technology space is screaming for regulation,” Barry Friedman, director of the Policing Project at New York University School of Law and another AI/Ethics board member, told Gizmodo. “If vendors and police departments do not start to self-regulate, then they will at some point, in the not too distant future, find themselves […]

“Episode Info Anne Milgram is the former Attorney General of New Jersey. Lisa Monaco was the Homeland Security Advisor to President Barack Obama. They join Preet to tackle your questions on the criminal justice system. What does collusion mean? What is a constitutional crisis? And is court anything like how it seems on TV?Do you […]

“WASHINGTON (AP) — A former homeland security and counterterrorism adviser to President Barack Obama is teaming up with a non-profit that gives free counseling and legal and other advice to the families of captives. Hostage US announced Monday that Lisa Monaco has been elected to its board. The group, which estimates that up to 200 […]

“Donald Trump often appears to be a president in rebellion against his office. A president, we have come to expect, hastens to the scene of a natural disaster to comfort the afflicted. After Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico, President Trump arrived tardily and behaved unseriously, tossing rolls of paper towels at storm-battered residents as if […]

“Washington (CNN)– As President Donald Trump rants anew about the Russia investigation, a bipartisan group of senators is trying to jump-start legislation to protect special counsel Robert Mueller from being fired. Debate around the latest proposal offers a reminder of how much power Trump, as chief executive, holds as the Russia investigation related to the 2016 […]

“A day after John R. Bolton went to work as national security adviser, he began shaking up the Trump administration’s national security ranks, ousting President Trump’s chief adviser on homeland security, Thomas P. Bossert. Mr. Bossert’s sudden departure on Tuesday was the latest in an exodus of senior officials, and it leaves the White House short-handed […]

“Geistfeld is Sheila Lubetsky Birbaum Professor of Civil Litigation at New York University School of Law. There is a paradox central to the ongoing ascension of autonomous vehicles. AVs — also called driverless cars — may one day make the world a safer place: by eliminating the human driver and abiding safe operational standards, these machines can […]

“Lisa Monaco, a former assistant attorney general and Homeland Security adviser, says we can’t judge the merits of Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ decision to fire Andrew McCabe because the Justice Department’s inspector general report has not been made public, which she called “highly unusual.” Monaco joins Judy Woodruff to give her impressions of McCabe and […]

“Lisa Monaco, former Homeland Security adviser to President Obama told John Berman that Special Counsel Robert Mueller is likely going to look at whether President Trump was trying to get peoples’ stories in line.”

“Lisa O. Monaco, a senior fellow at New York University School of Law’s Center on Law and Security, was homeland security and counterterrorism adviser to President Barack Obama from 2013 to 2017. John P. Carlin, chair of the law firm Morrison & Foerster’s global risk and crisis management group and the Aspen Institute’s Cybersecurity & […]

“What is fair? It seems a simple question, but it’s one without simple answers. That’s particularly true in the arcane world of artificial intelligence (AI), where the notion of smart, emotionless machines making decisions wonderfully free of bias is fading fast. Perhaps the most public taint of that perception came with a 2016 ProPublica investigation that concluded […]

“In the many discussions of President Donald Trump’s decision to fire former FBI Director James Comey, it is commonly assumed that if the president fired Comey for the purpose of interfering with the investigation into Russian electoral interference, then the president is guilty of obstructing justice. We find the president’s conduct deeply troubling and corrosive […]

“Broadcom Ltd. knocked more than $4 billion off its bid to acquire Qualcomm Inc., firing back a day after Qualcomm sweetened its own offer to acquire NXP Semiconductors NV by billions of dollars—a move Broadcom staunchly opposed.”

“We need to be imposing costs for the Russians’ malicious activity and attempt to undermine our democracy”—Senior Fellow Lisa Monaco on Mueller’s indictment of 13 Russians for interfering in the 2016 US election.”

“YOU DON’T READ privacy policies. And of course, that’s because they’re not actually written for you, or any of the other billions of people who click to agree to their inscrutable legalese. Instead, like bad poetry and teenagers’ diaries, those millions upon millions of words are produced for the benefit of their authors, not readers—the lawyers […]

“Graduate-level classes this semester at Carnegie Mellon, Cornell, Duke, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Maryland, among other places, illustrate the fascination with the technology across several academic fields, and the assumption that it will outlast the current speculative price bubble. “There was some gentle ribbing from my colleagues when I began […]

“A discussion of cybersecurity breaches was on the menu at the annual Law Alumni Association (LAA) luncheon, with experts from the legal, private equity, and technology industries offering perspectives on key issues in a ransomware attack.”

Lisa Monaco, former Obama homeland security advisor and fellow at The Center on Law and Security, discusses the FBI and Special Counsel investigation.

“He is very rational within his own context — Kim Jong Un, that is.” Considering the long-running battle of taunts and provocations between the North Korean leader and President Trump, Lisa Monaco had to make such a clarification. “[Kim] is quite rational in trying to maintain the continued existence of the regime,” Monaco told me in the latest episode of “Cape Up.” “That […]

“Justin Cappos, a computer science professor at New York University’s Tanden School of Engineering, said one of the more promising ways to stay ahead of hackers is through regular over-the-air software updates to fix vulnerabilities as soon as they become known. For example, Tesla last summer sent out updates to all Tesla Model Xs after Chinese security researchers managed to turn on a […]

“In a recently published article, “Taking Steel Seizure Seriously: The Iran Nuclear Agreement and the Separation of Powers,” 86 Fordham L. Rev. 1199 (2017), Steven Menashi and I question the constitutional validity of President Barack Obama’s decision, as part of the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action agreement with Iran and five other countries, to repeal, in effect, […]

“Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced the launch of a counterterrorism advisory panel, chaired by Kenneth L. Wainstein, partner at Davis Polk & Wardwell, and former Homeland Security Advisor to President George W. Bush. The advisory panel will also include Raymond W. Kelly, the former New York City Police Commissioner under both Mayors David Dinkins and […]

“New York University School of Law’s Lisa Monaco joins CFR’s Robert McMahon to discuss the threats facing U.S. homeland security.”

“Cyber security experts across the world are sounding alarm bells and are calling vehicles with advanced electronic technology or internet connectivity an “open door” which a hacker can use as a weapon. Justin Cappos, a computer scientist at New York University, told The Independent the issue is extremely dangerous and “urgent” as hackers could already be causing […]

“Broadcom Ltd.’s $105 billion gambit to acquire Qualcomm Inc. faces challenges not only in winning over shareholders but in navigating a host of potential roadblocks from regulators over market dominance, innovation and national security.”

“One day before President Donald Trump arrives in Beijing, the U.S. Senate is advancing a new North Korea sanctions bill that takes aim at Pyongyang’s chief enabler — China. On Tuesday, the Senate banking committee approved the Otto Warmbier Banking Restrictions Involving North Korea Act, or BRINK Act, in a unanimous vote. The bill, which […]

“In the immediate aftermath of 9/11, the United States’ resolve was clear: never again. Never again would it let shadowy networks of jihadists, acting in the name of a perverted version of Islam, carry out a catastrophic attack on American soil. And so, in fits and starts, the George W. Bush administration and then the Obama […]

Expert: Lisa Monaco

“I asked several of the most highly respected legal experts for their views on an issue yet to receive significant attention in the news: whether and to what extent, if any, a federal law—the Stored Communications Act—restricts Facebook’s ability to share the content of Russian ads and related information with Congress and the public.”

“Seamlessly integrated social media platforms allowed Russia-affiliated propagandists to target and influence voters in the 2016 election. As Facebook and Twitter are called to testify before Congress, will this incident open new avenues for information sharing between the federal government and private companies? Lisa Monaco joins Bloomberg Next to discuss the need for a robust […]

“Nicole Friedlander ’01 likes to solve complex problems—the more challenging, the better. “The cases that I enjoy the most are the most complicated, the mysteries, because it’s rewarding to be able to solve and explain them,” she says. In her career so far, Friedlander has had no shortage of challenging cases: formerly chief of the […]

“Washington, October 12 – With President Trump poised to withhold certification that Iran is adhering to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), Center for a New American Security (CNAS) Adjunct Senior Fellow and Executive Director of the Center on Law and Security at NYU School of Law Zachary Goldman has written a new commentary, “Legislative Options to […]

On Preet Bharara’s latest podcast episode, NYU Law Center on Law and Security Distinguished Fellow Lisa Monaco talks about advising Mueller and Obama.

“As the fallout from the Equifax data breach grows, people are increasingly looking at the company’s CEO. For many, the question is not whether Richard F. Smith, who has led Equifax since 2005, will step down, but when. The size of the breach, which affected 143 million customers, and the months it took for Equifax (EFX) […]

“After President Trump signed new sanctions against North Korea on Thursday, Kim Jong Un called him “deranged” and said the president will “pay dearly” for his threats. Judy Woodruff talks with David Cohen, former deputy director of the CIA and an undersecretary for terrorism and financial intelligence at the Treasury Department, about what new sanctions […]

“Boeing has been one of the big winners with the Iran nuclear deal with two deals worth roughly $20 billion with Iranian airlines. This could be in jeopardy if President Trump does not certify Iran’s compliance with the accord.”