Despite NYU’s reputation for its decentralized school structure, the university is quickly mastering the art of inter-school collaboration. The Tandon School of Engineering and NYU Law announced that they are working together on a new master’s program in Cybersecurity Risk and Strategy, focussing on an interdisciplinary education that prepares students to address cybersecurity challenges.
Author: Emerald Knox (Emerald Knox)
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Security analysis of Anti-SAT
Muhammad Yasin, Bodhisatwa Mazumdar, Ozgur Sinanoglu, and Jeyavijayan Rajendran Logic encryption protects integrated circuits (ICs) against intellectual property (IP) piracy and overbuilding attacks by encrypting the IC with a key. A Boolean satisfiability (SAT) based attack breaks all existing logic encryption technique within few hours. Recently, a defense mechanism known as Anti-SAT was presented that...
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A Bi-Level Game Approach to Attack-Aware Cyber Insurance of Computer Networks
Rui Zhang, Quanyan Zhu and Yezekael Hayel Network security becomes more challenging than ever as today’s computer networks become increasingly complex. The deployment of defense mechanisms such as firewalls , intrusion detection systems , and moving target defenses can effectively reduce the success rate of cyber attacks but cannot guarantee perfect network security as attacks are...
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Optimal Security Policy for Protection Against Heterogeneous Malware
Vladislav Taynitskiy, Elena Gubar, and Quanyan Zhu Malware is a malicious software which aims to disrupt computer operations, gather sensitive information, and gain access to private computer systems. It can induce various sorts of damage, including economic costs, the leakage of private information, and instability of physical systems, etc. The distribution of antivirus patches in...
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Springer’s Most-Read Engineering Paper of 2016? Research on 3D Printing’s Security Flaws
A research paper on the security vulnerabilities of 3D printing rose to be the most-read engineering paper of 2016 at Springer Publishing, one of the country’s major publishing houses, NYU Tandon announced last week. … The paper, Manufacturing and Security Challenges in 3D Printing, was written by Tandon researchers Nikhil Gupta, Steven Eric Zeltmann, Ramesh...
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Automotive cyber security: Keeping hackers out of cars
… “Attacks will get easier and more profitable unless we take steps now to make to make it harder,” Justin Cappos tells me as he explains a new cyber security program called Uptane, designed to identify and kill vehicle software bugs before the bad guys can exploit them. Cappos is an assistant professor of systems...
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Undermining Cybercrime: A Case Study on User Response to Unregulated Payment Systems
Prakhar Pandey, Ryan Brunt, Damon McCoy In this case study, we use the leaked database of a DDoS for hire service, vdos-s.com (VDOS), to investigate how users responded to disruptions in their payment options. Earlier this year VDOS was hacked and authorities were able to arrest the people running the site [2]. Using their leaked...
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New Threats Require New Responses: NYU Announces an MS in Cybersecurity Risk and Strategy Program for Executives
New York University is announcing the establishment of an MS in Cybersecurity Risk and Strategy Program for executives (MS CRS). Offered jointly by NYU School of Law and NYU Tandon School of Engineering, the one-year program will not simply confer a new degree, but a new category of degree — one built around the interdisciplinary...
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A New Master’s Degree for a New Kind of Professional
…NYU Tandon School of Engineering and the NYU School of Law have teamed up to offer a new master’s degree program built around the interdisciplinary training and perspective needed to address the new threats facing increasingly tech-reliant companies.
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A Visit From Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella
… Before addressing the students, Nadella met with Tandon’s dean, Katepalli Sreenivasan; Stern’s dean, Peter Blair Henry; Mrs. Tandon; and a select group of professors (Justin Cappos, Rumi Chunara, Luke DuBois, Siddharth Garg, and Vittoria Flamini from the [Tandon] School of Engineering…