“Not too nerdy and not too lawyerly—just right for business.” That’s how Ana Pinczuk would sum up the NYU Law/Tandon MS in Cybersecurity Risk and Strategy program. She should know—since graduating from Cornell with two engineering degrees, her career has spanned an era that began with the first commercially successful PCs through to AI-assisted robotics. […]
Mission Critical: Navy Seal Special Operations to Silicon Valley Tech Innovation In the sleek offices of Apple, you’ll find a leader whose path to tech innovation began not in Silicon Valley, but in the demanding world of Navy SEAL operations. Today, as an Engineering Project Manager for the Apple Vision Pro, he delivers product demonstrations […]
Colin Jenkel seems like the kind of guy you’d want in your foxhole. His varied professional background includes commercial diving and underwater welding, working as a medical lab specialist in infectious disease for the US Army, researching microfluidics at the university level, and, as he discreetly puts it, “a broad range of physical security roles.” […]
The emergence and active development of Generative AI is set to turbocharge the field of business automation and consequently the field of cybersecurity for businesses. Aware of the technology’s significance, Sangeetha “Uma” Natarajan (MSCRS ’24), the global vice president for sales engineering at business automation firm UiPath, specifically sought out the NYU MSCRS program to […]
Tim Nelson enlisted in the Marine Corps straight out of high school in 2008. He served five years before entering Georgetown University to “try something else,” he said. That he then graduated from Georgetown at the top of his class—as a philosophy major—is no small testament to the seasoning he experienced in his military career. […]
The First Cybersecurity Incident Response Plan for the Texas Democratic Party When the MSCRS Class of 2019 got under way, student Lauren Pully had barely begun her new job as chief technology officer for the Texas Democratic Party. The program proved its value almost immediately. “As we were learning about incident response plans in class,” […]
Growing up in Singapore, Lawrence Tan wanted to experience “the wider world” and considered a career path as a crew member with an international airline and then as a realtor working regionally within Asia Pacific. Though law became his ultimate calling (so far!), he is seeing the wider world in a different way. After serving […]
With a client roster that includes T-Mobile, Unilever, Southwest Airlines, Adidas, and StateFarm, the cloud-based business software company, Salesforce, has become virtually synonymous with customer relations management (CRM), according to Forbes.com. Its primary goals, says Corporate Counsel Erica Swainson, is, “to help our customers know their customers better, while driving positive change in the world.” […]
Cybersecurity is the Foundation of BlackBerry Today, “cybersecurity is the foundation of BlackBerry,” said Aaron Sawchuk, the company’s Vice President of Business Affairs and Commercial Contracting. Building on its heritage of creating secure devices, Blackberry has pivoted into a software provider offering endpoint management and protection to enterprises and governments plus embedded software to the […]
At the ripe old age of nine, Ken Nguyen began to understand the organizational and financial aspects of the business world, he said, by observing his hard-working parents, immigrants who knew that entrepreneurship was the best way to support their family. “I saw how my parents struggled to raise me and my siblings in a […]
1. Given your extensive technical background, what motivated you to apply for this program, rather than a standard MBA or an MS in engineering? The NYU School of Law and NYU Tandon School of Engineering joint Master of Science in Cybersecurity Risk and Strategy offered me a unique opportunity to round out my skills. At […]
When Melanie Gersten (MS CRS ’19) graduated from Johns Hopkins University with a BA in psychology and a focus on social psychology, little did she expect she would find herself working in cybersecurity or sitting onsite at the National Cyber-Forensics & Training Alliance (NCFTA) as a representative for Mastercard. In her day job as a […]
“The corporations I work with are increasingly concerned about the security of their business and data assets,” says Chin Hong Hua (MS CRS’19), a Singapore-based technical architect. “Singapore continues to be an important global nexus for banking activity, including trade finance, institutional banking, and wealth management services, and the nation is playing a crucial role […]
Major cybersecurity breaches of government and industry are happening more frequently and more alarmingly. Ni’Ko has worked in the cyber space across both sectors and has developed a sober assessment of US cyber preparedness: “On a scale of 1 to 10, I would have to say we are a 7 when it comes to cybersecurity […]
When Radhika Bajpai (MS CRS ’19) applied to the NYU Law MS CRS program, she laid out a case study of her then-firm’s technology risk from her financial sector perspective, as she puts it, suggesting new controls for the firm’s investment management division and processes for external audits. “Now that I know what I know, […]
With a career in technology focused on software development, big data and analytics, quality assurance and enterprise architecture, it may be surprising to learn that Andi Azzolina’s academic roots were not in computer science, but in human behavior. As it turns out, an undergraduate degree in psychology from American University has been good training for […]
Filling the Gap in Cybersecurity Experience on Company Boards Company boards of directors typically include at least one financial expert. When it comes to cybersecurity, not so much. Bethany Mayer, a 30-year tech veteran, former CEO of Ixia and alumna of Apple, Cisco, HP, and Blue Coat, among others, said, “I have noted that many […]
