Global Leaders in Cybersecurity

Cutting edge research with real-world impacts.

The faculty and students of NYU’s Center for Cybersecurity (CCS) perform cutting edge research, have world class teachers, and provide incredible scholarships that translates into meaningful real-world impact. We are world leaders in research of hardware security, adversarial machine learning, real world systems security, legal aspects of security, and cybercrime.
Our diverse set of students and faculty impact the world through efforts such as:

• The largest student run cybersecurity conference, with tens of thousands of participants across sites in 7+ countries
• Research that has identified payment processing weaknesses and cut off funds to spammers, leading to an 80% decrease in spam emails worldwide
• Innovative, interdisciplinary programs created with faculty across NYU that instill legal and policy capabilities into the next generation of cybersecurity professionals
• Deployed security systems that protect millions of Linux systems, automobiles, git servers and clients, and cloud computing instances
• Deep ties to the cybersecurity industry in NYC