Cybersecurity News and Insights

Glasses were raised and toasts were delivered on December 2, as cybersecurity elite from around the world gathered at NYU to celebrate the publication of Distinguished Research Professor Ed Amoroso’s latest book, Reaching the Chasm: How to Drive Your Early-Stage Start-Up to Scale. One of the courses Amoroso teaches in the NYU School of Law-NYU […]

Study demonstrates AI systems can carry out full attack campaigns, a warning to cybersecurity defenders

Project receives U.S. Department of Energy funding to develop AI-assisted sensor data analytics for detecting hidden problems in urban underground electrical grids

AI and Prosecution is a collaboration between the Vanderbilt Project on Prosecution Policy (VPOPP) and NYU Law’s Policing Project. Based on a comprehensive literature review and interviews with prosecutors nationwide, this report catalogs current AI applications in prosecution, explores future uses, assesses benefits and risks, and offers recommendations for effective governance of the use of […]

Beth George, Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Reiss Center on Law and Security at NYU School of Law, examines with Freshfield colleagues generative AI’s global impact in addition to how companies must understand how regulators approach AI.

Former Navy SEAL Wade Warden has traded in his tactical gear for a different kind of combat equipment: cybersecurity expertise. As he sits in NYU Law and NYU Tandon’s cutting-edge Master of Science in Cybersecurity Risk and Strategy program, he’s fighting a new kind of threat—one that can’t be seen through night vision goggles. “The […]

The sectoral privacy regime in the United States allow behaviors that seem clearly to violate privacy to flourish, effectively gouging meaningful oversight from sectoral privacy laws. We call these “regulatory dodges.” By: NYU Law Professors Helen Nissenhaum, Katherine J. Strandburg, and Michigan Law Professor Salome Viljoen

In response to a number of copyright lawsuits about AI training datasets, we are starting to see efforts to build ‘non-infringing’ collections of media for training AI. Piece by Michael Weinberg, Executive Director, NYU Law, Engelberg Center

In our most recent issue (CyberByte Spring 2024), we examine research initiatives at both NYU Tandon and Abu Dhabi that are designed to repel a growing tide of deepfakes and disinformation, including the work of two Ph.D. candidates and one 2024 Ph.D. graduate—Bruno Coelho, Aditya Sirish A Yelgundhalli, and Dr. Brian Timmerman. We also examine the […]

The Federal Communications Commission announced it will vote in April on whether or not to reinstate net neutrality — a set of rules to ensure equal treatment of internet data. The Trump administration overturned the policy in 2017. NYU Law School professor Christopher Sprigman joins CBS News to unpack the battle.