About Us
Our Mission
The NYU Center for Cybersecurity (CCS) is an interdisciplinary research institute dedicated to training current and future generations of cybersecurity professionals, and to shaping public discourse and policy, and the legal and technological landscape of cybersecurity.
NYU CCS is a collaboration between the NYU School of Law and the NYU Tandon School of Engineering, with participation and support from other schools and departments within the university.
In its short history, CCS has logged a number of significant accomplishments, including:
- Establishing the most comprehensive student-run cybersecurity event, CSAW, which attracts thousands of participants from all over the world to five global sites.
- Leading research projects that have an immediate and profound impact on society as whole. Recent such initiatives include conducting a study that reveals social media posts containing misinformation had much higher engagement levels than posts that were accurate, the creation of an open source library that can fight deepfakes by supporting modeling and optimization of photo acquisition and distribution pipelines, and the application of new encryption strategies that can enable microchips to be moved through a supply chain without decrypting them first.
- Deploying security systems that protect software update strategies and software supply chains for millions of Linux systems, automobiles, git servers and clients, and cloud computing instances.
- Launching innovative, interdisciplinary educational programs to build technical, legal, and policy capabilities into the next generation of cybersecurity professionals. In addition to conventional in-person degree programs, these offerings include online degree options, and certificate programs to support the development of essential skills.
- Earning recognition from the National Centers of Academic Excellence in Cybersecurity (NCAE-C), which certifies graduates of CCS programs as having expertise in Cyber Defense, Cyber Operations, and Cyber Research.
- Underwriting the education of “a new generation of technology lawyers” who can analyze the most complex technology law and policy issues, but have also mastered the technical understandings of the discipline.
- Creating research projects that span engineering disciplines, such as initiatives in additive manufacturing, and the design of diagnostic These programs bring together expertise from mechanical engineering, materials science, and electrical and computer engineering.
- Establishing successful working relationship with both for profit and open source companies.
- Cultivated ties to the cybersecurity industry and government agencies in NYC.