Judith Germano, a Senior Fellow at the Reiss Center on Law and Security and an Adjunct Professor of Law at both the NYU School of Law and the NYU Stern School of Business, has taken over the reins as co-director of NYU’s Center for Cybersecurity. Serving alongside Professor Damon McCoy of the Department of Computer...
While community health clinics, shelters, legal aid services, K-12 schools and other nonprofits increasingly find themselves on the front lines of cybercrime, they lack adequate resources to defend themselves from these threats. A new gift to New York University from Craig Newmark Philanthropies, a charitable organization founded by the creator of Craig’s List, seeks to...
Two former research assistant professors at Tandon, Dr. Hammond Pearce and Dr. Benjamin Tan were recently awarded major corporate recognition. Pearce, now a Senior Lecturer at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, has been awarded funds by Google for his project exploring the discovery and repair of critical flaws in the design...
Professor Ramesh Karri, chair of NYU Tandon’s Electrical and Computer Engineering Department (ECE), has been named to the IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust (HOST) Hall of Fame. The honor recognizes Karri’s broad impact on the field of hardware security. In announcing the award, Jim Plusquellic, a professor of Electrical and Computer...
Stalking has become a major issue in the U.S., with one 2024 study noting that some 13.5 million people are stalked each year and that about one in three women and one in six men will experience stalking at some point in their lifetime (See the report from the Domestic Violence Services Network, Inc.). Unfortunately,...
In April, 2025, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF), announced the graduation of in-toto, a ground-breaking software supply chain security framework developed at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering. Achieving graduation status means in-toto has undergone rigorous review by the CNCF that included publishing end-user case studies and enhancing governance and onboarding practices, and has...
Pictured above Professor Ozgur Sinanoglu of NYU Abu Dhabi welcomes attendees to the NYU sponsored workshop. The World Police Summit, hosted by the Dubai Police and held from May 13-15 at the Dubai World Trade Centre, brought together some 53,000 law enforcement professionals, policymakers, industry leaders, and innovators from more than 110 countries. Attendees heard...
Labs-on-chips is an exciting new medical technology that enables technicians to perform multiple laboratory tests on tiny fluid samples, such as blood droplets. Unfortunately, malicious parties are already finding ways to tamper with these devices and affect their functionality. In a study published last fall in Scientific Reports, a team of researchers from CCS and...
How good are AI systems really when it comes to answering questions about specific industry domains? And, can they be effective in identifying fraud or at sniffing out propaganda in online news? Two recent studies by CCS faculty are seeking answers to these and other practical questions about the efficacy of AI systems; in the...
NYU will soon be home to a new federally funded center dedicated to the protection of America’s electric power infrastructure. The new center will be one of several regional cybersecurity hubs established by the Department of Energy’s Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response (CESER) to promote and support innovative research, and to train...