Category: Press Highlights

It’s a question that still rankles many a Clinton loyalist: Why didn’t the Obama administration do more to sound the alarm over Russia’s meddling in the 2016 presidential campaign? Few former officials have explained it, but in a new interview for The Global POLITICO, Lisa Monaco, President Obama’s top homeland security and counterterrorism adviser, describes...

NYU Center for Cybersecurity Distinguished Senior Fellow Lisa O. Monaco appeared on The Global Politico, a weekly podcast about the world in the Trump era. In addition to her experiences with counterterrorism, she discussed how the Obama White House handled the Russian hacking of the 2016 elections–the first extensive comments by someone in the room at...

The eighth event in a series of open lectures on cybersecurity and privacy at the New York University Tandon School of Engineering will convene in Downtown Brooklyn on Tuesday, April 25, 2017, with an exploration of the hardware security challenges posed by interconnected devices and cloud computing. Convergence of IoT, Cloud, Security: A Perfect Storm...

Justin Cappos, Assistant Professor of computer science and engineering at NYU Tandon School of Engineering comments on a new bill that the House and Senate passed that rolls back privacy protection rules put in place by President Obama: “Now when you browse the web you are going to be tracked by the person you are...

NYU Center for Cybersecurity co-founder Zachary K. Goldman comments on the encryption debate in light of the most recent attacks in London: While there is “an undeniable governmental need for these messages,” the question is really whether companies should be forced to build a product that allows the government to access data…Any action on this...

When Jeyavijayan (JV) Rajendran was a graduate student at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering, it was not unusual to see him mentioned on the school website. Working with Professor Ramesh Karri of Electrical and Computer Engineering, he helped cement Tandon’s reputation at the forefront of hardware security … Now a tenure-track assistant professor at...

As Presidents Trump and Xi prepare for their first meeting next month at Mar-a-Lago, most early attention has centered on tension points involving Taiwan policy, the South China Sea, North Korea and trade. But another U.S.-China issue hangs in the balance: cybersecurity.

A team of engineers at NYU Tandon, in partnership with Griffeye — a digital intelligence technology company — is developing a new software that will help law enforcement combat the increasingly prevalent issue of child exploitation.

NYU Center for Cybersecurity co-founder Zachary K. Goldman discusses the significance and consequences of the recent indictment of the Russians behind the Yahoo hacks. “This indictment is part of a broader sustained effort on the part of the US government to deter Russia from committing cyberattacks by prosecuting Russian cybercriminals, imposing sanctions, and taking other...