Thanks to a new partnership with Zscaler, a San Jose-based cloud security company, participants in NYU Tandon’s Cyber Fellows program will be able to gain practical, first-hand knowledge of secure access service edge (SASE) and zero trust best practices. Under the terms of the partnership, students in the Master’s level cybersecurity program will be able to...
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Tandon Researchers Advance Transparency in Political Advertising with “Observatory” Launch
For the past few years Dr. Damon McCoy, an associate professor of computer science and engineering at NYU Tandon, and Ph.D. candidate Laura Edelson have been shedding light on the people behind political advertising through their work on the Online Political Transparency Project . Building on this previous work, NYU Tandon announced on September 15 the...
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CCS Faculty Awarded NSF Grant to Develop Container Security Strategy
Dr. Brendan Dolan-Gavitt, an assistant professor in the Computer Science and Engineering Department at NYU Tandon, will serve as principal investigator on a $1.2 million dollar grant recently awarded by the National Science Foundation. Under the four-year grant, Dolan-Gavitt will work with his CSE colleague, Dr. Justin Cappos, to develop a strategy to secure containers...
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Tandon Ph.D. Candidate Edelson Speaks out on Transparency in Political Advertising
As the 2020 Presidential election edges closer, Laura Edelson, a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science and Engineering at NYU Tandon finds herself much in demand. Because of her work as lead researcher with the Online Political Ads Transparency Project, Edelson has been called on several times over the summer to serve as a panelist and/or...
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Tandon Ph.D. Student Launches Virtual Cybersecurity Mentoring Program for Nepali Undergrads
Prasant Adhikari, a Ph.D. student at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering, spent his summer in a rather unusual way. He put together and helped to run an online modular instruction program in cybersecurity for undergraduates in Nepal. The program, dubbed Gajabaar after the horizontal wooden bar that secures doors in traditional Nepali houses, offered...
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CyberSTRIKE Exercise Shows Off NYC Resilience
The annual Cyber Simulated Threat Response and Incident Knowledge Exercise, or Cyber STRIKE, conducted in conjunction with New York City Cyber Command, took on a slightly different twist this year. The training exercise, completed by a team of Cyber Fellows from the NYU Center for Cybersecurity, used a city-run cyber range to test their ability...
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Whitepaper Underscores Uptane’s Role in Securing Automobiles
Airbiquity, a company that designs and develops over-the-air delivery systems for vehicles, recently released a white paper on the importance of securing such systems. The focal point of the document is how its OTAmatic™ update product, working with Uptane, an open source, compromise-resilient update framework for cars, can provide this security. The document establishes why...
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Greenstadt and McCoy Twice-Honored for Study of Intimate Partner Surveillance Strategies
A paper co-authored by Dr. Damon McCoy and Dr. Rachel Greenstadt of NYU Tandon’s Department of Computer Science and Engineering and Center for Cybersecurity, recently collected two different honors at the USENIX Security Conference. Titled, “The Tools and Tactics Used in Intimate Partner Surveillance: An Analysis of Online Infidelity Forums,” the paper won both a...
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A Busy Summer for Zhu: Tandon ECE Professor Releases Three Next Books; Leads Robotics Seminar
Springer Publishing recently released three new book titles with one thing in common: all were co-authored or co-edited by NYU Tandon Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Quanyan Zhu. The titles include two dealing with the application of game theoretic approaches to cybersecurity, and to resilient interdependent network analysis and design, and a third...
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Tandon EEs Document the Risks of Incorporating DNNs into Autonomous Systems
The integration of deep neural networks (DNNs) have enabled cars and robots to use input from sensors to function without any human intervention. Yet, DNNs are vulnerable to hacking, which makes their use in autonomous systems risky. A team of researchers from NYU Tandon’s Electrical and Computer Engineering department, including CCS faculty member Dr. Siddharth...