Cybersecurity News and Insights

“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