New York City is now home to a cybersecurity master’s degree program, launched as a joint effort between New York University (NYU) Tandon School of Engineering and New York City Cyber Command. This program, dubbed the New York Cyber Fellows, is an online initiative created in conjunction with leading employers within New York City, aiming...
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NYU Launches Cybersecurity Master's Program to Help Fill Skills Gap
Cybersecurity threats are a serious issue, but the field is lacking experts who can prevent or handle such hacks. … One estimate predicts that the world will see a global shortage of 1.8 million cybersecurity experts by 2022.To help fill this skills gap, New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering has launched the New York...
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The Worst Healthcare Cybersecurity Breaches of 2017
In 2017, a spate of high-profile attacks brought the healthcare industry’s need to strengthen its cybersecurity into sharp focus. Ransomware, like WannaCry and NotPetya, has wreaked havoc in small hospitals and biopharma giants alike, and the vulnerabilities appear widespread and acute, experts said. … “If you were hit by WannaCry, you were really doing something...
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2018: The Year Of Blockchain For Ad Industry?
Blockchain technology emerged in the advertising industry as a sort of phenomenon in 2017. Companies like IBM and Microsoft are betting big on the technology that seems to be pumping new life into some of the more established players and retailers, such as Oracle and Walmart. .. In July 2017, Google researchers reported that Chainalysis,...
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3D Printing Industry Review Of The Year May 2017
A month of celebration – in May we held the first ever annual 3D Printing Industry Awards and hosted a gala dinner of esteemed guests including Siemens, 3D Systems, Ultimaker, Zortrax, Desktop Metal, Shining 3D, Markforged, Zortrax, Sinterit, HP, Dassault Systèmes, DWS, Autodesk, Polymaker and UCL. … And a team at the New York University...
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NYU Tandon Becomes a Center of Influence in the World of Hardware Security
Since 2002, when NYU Tandon Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Ramesh Karri and his students generated the first research on attack-resilient chip architecture, the school has been at the forefront of this vital field, demonstrating before anyone else that integrated circuits’ test and debug ports could be used by hackers; delivering the first set...
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Let’s Talk About the Latest Godawful Cybersecurity Plan
By 2020, some major companies will shovel billions of dollars into developing more comprehensive forms of security according to the International Data Corporation, and policy-makers are following closely, proposing new legislation and regulations to accompany them. One of the latest is the newly repurposed Active Cyber Defense Certainty (ACDC) Act, also called the hack-back bill....
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Random Light Patterns – A Novel Cyber Security Solution?
Researchers at New York University Tandon School of Engineering have developed a new class of unclonable cybersecurity security primitives using the high level of structural randomness in 2D MoS2. … In a paper published in the journal ACS Nano (‘Physically Unclonable Cryptographic Primitives by Chemical Vapor Deposition of Layered MoS2), Davood Shahrjerdi and his NYU...
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A Timely Talk About Cyber Threats to Our Democracy
On November 16, as many Americans prepared for Thanksgiving, Ed Amoroso — former chief security officer of AT&T Services, advisor to four presidential administrations, CEO of global security firm TAG Cyber LLC, and NYU Tandon Distinguished Research Professor — gave a rapt audience a good reason to be thankful: that there are brilliant, experienced, and...
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HERE buys OTA specialist ATS
… ATS’s OTA Plus v3 product is secured by Uptane, a security system for OTA developed by New York University Tandon School of Engineering (NYU), the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI), and the Southwest Research Institute (SWRI) under a programme supported by the US Department of Homeland Security. The ATS acquisition will be...