Throughout the year, CCS hosts speakers, forums, and competitions, while its students and faculty are also garnering awards, receiving government and private grants, or presenting research at meetings and conferences. This page compiles news and updates from the Center and its personnel.
December 2021
The 2021 edition of the annual Women Leaders in Cybersecurity panel discussion will be held via Zoom on December 7 from 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. The event will open with a keynote address delivered by Melissa Hathaway, president of Hathaway Global Strategies LLC, and former Cybersecurity Chief of the National Security Council. Hathaway served under two U.S. presidential administrations, spearheading the Cyberspace Policy Review for President Barack Obama after leading the Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative (CNCI) for President George W. Bush.…
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Digital and Additive Manufacturing is proliferating in industrial settings. These new techniques for product design and implementation can enable rapid prototyping, more complex part details, simplification of product assemblies, and reduction in part tooling. However, they may also increase the attack surface for malicious third parties to alter design files, manufacturing parameters, steal intellectual property, or compromise part testing. In this webinar series we present an examination of this area. This week's focus is on Mechanical Compromises and Defect Detection:…
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The 12th in a series of annual lectures organized by the NYU Tandon School of Engineering on significant issues related to cyber offense and defense. The 2022 edition explores "what’s driving cloud adoption, the security implications of that move, the impact for both cloud providers and customers, and the cloud security megatrends ultimately impacting IT-decision makers driving change in their organizations." After Jelena Kovačević, Dean of the NYU Tandon School of Engineering delivers welcoming remarks, Phil Venables, Chief Information Security…
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Thursday May 5, 2022, 11-12 PM ET (NYC time). This discussion will center on the next big movements within the DM/Additive Manufacturing space, and what aspects of these emerging trends might be vulnerable to cyber attacks. The "next big things" discussed could include process developments and their cyber elements, methods for protecting intellectual property, or technologies that could be vulnerable to sabotage. We'll pay particular attention to the recent rise in machine learning as a tool for both attackers and…
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In the third installment of a webinar series examining the impact of new smart technologies, such as 3D printing, and smart hybrid manufacturing, on traditional manufacturing operations, the focus of this panel will be on initiatives to attract and keep a more diverse and inclusive workforce in this arena. Moderated by Dr. Bhavani Thuraisingham, Founders Chair Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Dallas, the event brings together a panel of experts from both…
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Women Leaders in Cybersecurity presents the July 2022 program Cyber Risk: Increasing Board and Executive Accountability, a can’t-miss discussion on the role top leadership plays in cybersecurity practice and policy. The panel and speakers include women from the public and private sectors who are cybersecurity leaders and innovators. Join us for a discussion on the important legal, technological, ethical, and policy issues at stake in enhancing board and executive accountability for cyber risk. Sponsored by the Center for Cybersecurity, the…
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This is the final webinar in the 2022 series of virtual panels on the industry response to cybersecurity threats within additive and digital manufacturing. This focus this time is on protecting and verifying IP; authenticating design files; and examining cyber incident responses. Sponsored by the National Science Foundation and NYU Tandon School of Engineering, the event is free and all are encouraged to attend. Panelists: Philip Reeves, Managing Director of Reeves Insight, a leading consultant in this domain Shuchi “SK”…
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After two years as a virtual event, the Annual CSAW Cybersecurity Games and Conference returns "in-person" to three of its five international sites, including the Brooklyn campus of NYU Tandon where it all began. Today's activities in Brooklyn start with a series of talks on technology risk management, smart contracts, penetration testing, and protecting critical infrastructure. Speakers include: Ajoy Kumar, Managing Director and CISO at DTTC Stephen Tong, Co-founder of Zellic and a founding member of the Perfect Blue CTF…
Read MoreWith the competitions completed, it's time to honor the winners at all five sites. Congratulations to all the finalists. At the Brooklyn locations, the honors ceremonies will run from 9 to 11 a.m.
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Uptane, a project of NYU Tandon's Secure Systems Laboratory, is hosting a free virtual workshop from 9 to 11 a.m. (EDT).on 3/31 entitled “A Conversation on End-to-End Secure Automotive Software Updates” Our featured speakers are Matthew Mackay, leader of a diverse team that focuses on governance, risk, compliance and monitoring, and response activities for General Motor’s Product Cybersecurity team, and Charles Hart, a researcher on product security and supply chain integrity at Hitachi America Ltd. and Chair of the…
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