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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.

MS CRS Class of 2020 alum Jacob Helberg, senior adviser to Palantir and a member of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, is organizing an event on May 1, where more than 100 tech chiefs and investors, including Alex Karp, the head of the defense contractor Palantir, and Roelof Botha, the managing partner of […]

In this episode of Healthcare Nation, Rick Gannotta sits down with cybersecurity expert Judith Germano to discuss the evolving threat landscape in the healthcare sector. With her extensive background in economic crimes and as a distinguished fellow at NYU’s Center for Cybersecurity, Judith offers invaluable insights into the challenges and strategies for protecting patient data […]

NYU MS CRS professor and former AT&T Chief Security Officer Edward Amoroso said that while the use of AI and large-language models may not pose an immediately obvious threat, they “will eventually become one of the most powerful weapons in every nation-state military’s offense.” Click to read more.

From products like ChatGPT to resource allocation and cancer diagnoses, artificial intelligence will impact nearly every part of our lives. We know the potential benefits of AI are enormous, but so are the risks, including chemical and bioweapons attacks, more effective disinformation campaigns, AI-enabled cyber-attacks, and lethal autonomous weapons systems. Policymakers have taken steps to […]

Law professor Catherine Sharkey explains how artificial intelligence is being used to tackle the arduous work of keeping our federal agencies in check.

MS CRS faculty & guest speakers, Randy Milch, Ed Amoroso, Joe Sullivan, and Joel Caminer, discuss the impact of the SEC position on cyber security for the CISO.

This explainer is an evolving project to provide everyone with the types of answers that legal experts might informally provide to each other. Each question includes a short response to help you understand the most likely answer in the most likely cases. That answer is then given a confidence score on a scale of 1-5, […]

Many of the social questions raised by artificial intelligence are mediated through the legal system. Policymakers explore new rules to govern the technology, courts work to apply existing legal framework to new situations, and advocates propose entirely new approaches to deal with novel problems (or old problems with new prominence).

Segal Family Professor of Regulatory Law and Policy Catherine Sharkey examined those questions in a report she prepared in May for the Administrative Conference of the United States (ACUS), an independent executive branch agency charged with issuing nonbinding recommendations to improve administrative and regulatory processes. Drawing on Sharkey’s report, on July 3, the ACUS published a recommendation […]

The Biden administration’s National Cybersecurity Strategy, released earlier this year, calls for shifting liability for insecure software, via legislation and agency action, onto software producers that fail to take “reasonable precautions.” It would impose the cost of security flaws onto the party best-positioned to avoid them while rejecting industry’s attempt to shift liability downstream. While not without critics, […]

Generative AI has great commercial promise but also poses immediate dangers. A new report from the NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights argues that the best way to prepare for potential existential risks in the future is to begin now to regulate the AI harms right in front of us.

MSCRS Professor Ed Amoroso outlines a simple framework (suitable for we-humans to sketch on a napkin) that is based on an acronym called PILOT. The framework suggests how the US should begin to regulate artificial intelligence using an oversight board within NIST.

U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland testified on March 1 for the first time before the new Congress at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, “Oversight of the Department of Justice.” Buried in wide-ranging testimony was an exchange about the reauthorization of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). Just Security recently ran a series featuring pieces by Elizabeth […]

This year’s reauthorization of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) — a law that authorizes broad surveillance of foreigners outside the United States to acquire foreign intelligence information— will be unlike any previous one. In the past, reauthorization was a foregone conclusion, and civil liberties advocates struggled to secure even minor procedural […]

Across the technology industry, artificial intelligence (AI) has boomed over the last year. Lensa went viral creating artistic avatar artwork generated from real-life photos. The OpenAI chatbot ChatGPT garnered praise as a revolutionary leap in generative AI with the ability to provide answers to complex questions in natural language text. Such innovations have ignited an outpouring of investments even as the […]

The first meeting of the United Nations Security Council Counter-Terrorism Committee (CTC) held outside of U.N. headquarters in New York since 2015 marked important advances in engaging with civil society and experts who have questioned the embrace of counterterrorism approaches that too often backfire or result in human rights violations[…]

Western military assistance to Ukraine has clearly been an essential part of its ability to defend itself against Russian attacks. Another critical factor, highlighted during a series of recent transatlantic dialogues organized by the Munich Security Conference, has been the capability of widely available technology that has empowered everyday Ukrainians to participate in a truly […]

An investigation by Global Witness and the Cybersecurity for Democracy (C4D) team at NYU Tandon looked at Facebook, TikTok, and Youtube’s ability to detect and remove election disinformation in the run up to the US midterm elections.

Desperately needed research is finally becoming possible. The European Parliament has adopted the new Digital Services Act (DSA) and the final text has now been approved by the Council of the European Union (EU) on Oct. 4. This act overhauls EU law regarding digital service providers’ legal responsibility for the content their users post and obligations for content moderation.

The United Nations is engaged in a landmark effort to establish a new global cybercrime treaty.

Chimène Keitner is a professor of law at UC Hastings and former Counselor on International Law at the State Department. In this Q&A on U.S. Intervention in Ukraine v. Russia at the ICJ, she describes how the ICJ case has “served as a focal point” for nations seeking to offer legal support to Ukraine. She examines jurisdictional and merits questions, […]

Michael Fitzpatrick MS CRS ’19, NYC’s chief privacy officer, explains how NYU Law prepared him to tackle pressing issues in cybersecurity.

Please come join the National Security Law Society in welcoming Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) representatives to NYU Law. An attorney from the CIA’s Office of General Counsel and a member of the Agency’s Talent Center will be visiting to speak about internship and career opportunities at the agency, along with answering questions about the hiring […]

In this faculty lecture, Justin Cappos, Associate Professor, Computer Science and Engineering will cover what specific efforts make it harder for attackers to compromise the means by which software is created and distributed. A specific area of focus will be on what tools one can use in practice to combat such attackers.

As the war in Ukraine progresses, there have been several offensive cyber operations linked to Russian organizations against Ukrainian civil, military, and corporate infrastructures. Cybersecurity and intelligence professionals were initially surprised by the lack of large-scale and complex cyber attacks in support of Russia’s kinetic activities at the outset of the war.

Board and executive accountability around cyber risk has become Topic A for corporate leaders. Judi Germano, professor in MS CRS Program, shares her expertise in this article. Click the title of this post to read the full piece.

Join the NYU Center for Cybersecurity for a discussion on the important legal, technological, ethical, and policy issues at stake in enhancing board and executive accountability for cyber risk. This will be a can’t-miss discussion on the role top leadership plays in cybersecurity practice and policy. This event is moderated by MS CRS Professor Judi […]

The Reiss Center on Law and Security and Just Security present a new series, What You Need to Know: Unpacking the Law in Russia’s War Against Ukraine. In brief question-and-answer interviews with leading experts, we will probe some of the most urgent and unsettled legal questions in a tragic conflict that threatens to reshape the international legal and […]

This initiative brings together thought leaders from government, business, and academia to discuss strategies for addressing future attacks on critical infrastructure. MS CRS Professors Randy Milch (NYU Law) and Ed Amoroso (NYU Tandon) are featured in this series. Click the title of this post to receive the interviews and briefings.

The NYU Tandon School of Engineering Cyber Security Lecture Series provides an arena for high-level discussion among world-class scholars and practitioners. Led by MS CRS capstone mentor Phil Venables (CISO – Google Cloud), this lecture will be followed by a panel discussion with Cybersecurity Experts offering their own perspectives on cloud adoption, security, and digital transformation. […]

Inaugural National Cyber Director Chris Inglis visited NYU Law for a keynote address and fireside chat hosted by the NYU Center for Cybersecurity. Director Inglis addressed the state of cyber policy today and the need for a “Cyber Social Contract” that realigns risks and responsibilities between public and private actors in cyberspace. Click the title of this post to view […]

Nicole spent a decade as lead cybersecurity reporter at The New York Times, is the author of NYT bestseller, “This Is How They Tell Me The World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race,” and serves as an Advisor for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. We were excited to welcome Nicole as a guest speaker in the National […]

Laura Edelson, co-founder of Cybersecurity for Democracy and member of NYU Center for Cybersecurity, offers her input in this NYT article: “They are telling stories that support their narrative. Sometimes false information is making its way in there, too, and more of it is getting through because of the overall environment.” Please click the title of this post […]

NYU Tandon Professor Justin Cappos in the news: Following Russia’s provocations and now invasion of Ukraine, local and state officials are stepping up their vigilance and talking about bolstering defenses of critical infrastructure and other high-interest targets, including transportation networks, power grids and financial institutions. Please click the title of this post to read this […]

NYU Tandon Professor Justin Cappos in the news: As Russian troops attack Ukraine, experts are warning that Vladimir Putin could also seize the opportunity to deploy Russia’s trove of cyber-weapons to hack America’s infrastructure. Please click the title of this post to read this article from Yahoo! Finance.

This virtual event will feature a star lineup of women speakers from government, the private sector and academia for an interdisciplinary discussion of the legal, policy, technological and ethical issues regarding these key concerns. MS CRS Professor Judi Germano will moderate the session. Click the link of this post to register!

CSAW is the most comprehensive student-run cyber security event in the world, featuring 8 cyber competitions, workshops, and industry events. This event is organized by the NYU Center for Cybersecurity. Click the title of this post to register!

Trusted Computing Group announced a new work group that will define how TCG technologies can be implemented to address supply chain security challenges. Michael (VP at Goldman Sachs) is Co-Chair of the new work group.

Jacob Helberg’s (MS CRS ’20) The Wires of War: Technology and the Global Struggle for Power, was published on October 12 by the Avid Reader Press imprint of Simon & Schuster. In addition to providing technical background on cybersecurity, the book outlines his views on the current tensions between the United States and China.  Helberg, […]

This session will focus on why data science is fundamental to building a successful and mature cybersecurity program, and what the implications are for cybersecurity professionals. MS CRS Professor Damon McCoy will participate as a panelist. Click the title of this post to register.

This virtual symposium explores how the law must adapt to promote innovation while addressing serious questions around the development and use of AI in the United States and globally. Click the title of this post to register.

Join MS CRS Faculty Director Randy Milch and David Raviv (Forbes Technology Council, The Cyber Guild, NY Information Security Meetup Founder) for a live LinkedIn fireside chat on Tuesday, August 17th. Visit David Raviv’s LinkedIn profile (linked in the title of this post) to set a reminder for this conversation.

MS CRS Professor Rob Silvers was sworn in on August 10th, 2021 as DHS Under Secretary for the Office of Strategy, Policy, and Plans. Silvers is the latest member of the NYU community to join the Biden Administration.

In this piece, MS CRS Professor Ed Amoroso (NYU Tandon) argues that the key to preventing cyberattacks on US infrastructure lies in our nation’s history. Click the title of this post to read Professor Amoroso’s recommendations and best practices.

To learn more about the type of work and research that our MS CRS students are completing in the Emerging Innovations in Cybersecurity course, please click the title of this post. These student papers cover topics such as 5G, disinformation, AI, nation state cyberattacks, and more.

Lisa Monaco, Deputy Attorney General for the US Department of Justice, Distinguished Senior Fellow for the NYU Law Reiss Center on Law and Security, and MS CRS guest speaker delivers remarks on the recent Darkside attack on Colonial Pipeline. Click the title of this post to read the transcript.

MS CRS Professors Ed Amoroso (NYU Tandon) and Randy Milch (NYU Law) co-wrote a piece for Just Security, focused on the attempts by the FBI to patch infected private servers. Click the link of this post to learn more about the technical and legal risks involved.

Click the title of this post to REGISTER. Join MS CRS Professor Randy Milch, current MS CRS student Congressman William Timmons, and Congressman Mike Gallagher in a discussion of Professor Milch’s call for Congress to create a new post-breach cybersecurity privilege in “What’s Good for Litigation isn’t Necessarily Good for Cybersecurity.”

Click the title of this post to REGISTER. Join a virtual panel of distinguished speakers, including several MS CRS faculty as they discuss the massive SolarWinds cybersecurity breach. The panelists will deliberate what happened, who is responsible, and impacts for the public + private sector.

This virtual panel of experts will address the growing problem of dis- and misinformation, and discuss solutions to help increase transparency, understanding, and trust, while also protecting privacy concerns and freedom of expression. This event will be moderated by MS CRS Professor Judi Germano. Click to register.

NYU Tandon Data Future Lab’s virtual series will bring together experts, innovators, funders, and founders for a discussion on authoritarian tech, the industry landscape and impact, the solutions emerging, the role of the government as regulator and client, and more. Click the title of this post to register.

“Privacy 2021” will bring together women leaders for a critical conversation on data transparency and security, navigating international regulations, remote workforce programs, employer contact tracing issues, and more. MS CRS Professor Judi Germano is moderating the virtual panel. Click the title of this post to register.

Professor Germano’s 2019 report for the American Water Works Association noted the cyber and national security vulnerabilities of water systems and small municipal agencies. These warnings are timely in the wake of the 2021 cyber hack on one of Florida’s water systems. Click the title of this post to read the full report.

The 2021 TAG Cyber Security annual includes articles and best practices relating to government and business, interviews with cyber experts, and analyst reports. Follow the link in the title of this post to download your free copy.

This year’s conference, hosted by the NYU Center for Cybersecurity, will bring together prominent women in the cybersecurity field for a conversation about public health, insider threats, algorithmic bias, and more. Join us on 12/9 to hear from MS CRS professor Judi Germano and all of the expert panelists.

Five MS CRS Class of 2020 graduates presented their capstone research “Biological Stuxnet” Law and Technology Around Nation-State Attacks on IoT Medical Devices and Genetic Data.”

In this Q&A, featured in the NYU Reiss Center on Law and Security’s “Novel Threats” series, faculty Director Randy Milch discusses issues of privacy and the existing cybersecurity regulatory structure.

In the NYU Reiss Center on Law and Security’s “Novel Threats: National Security and the Coronavirus Pandemic” series, MS CRS Professor Judi Germano discusses misinformation and other threats posed by the pandemic.

MS CRS Faculty members Damon McCoy, Randy Milch, Joel Caminer, and Nasir Memon talk with the NYU Center for Cybersecurity about critical issues in cybersecurity across a range of industries.

The first graduates of NYU’s interdisciplinary master’s program discuss how it went – and whether it was worth the price.

“Protecting the public from the most pressing terrorist threat “has been our governing principle for many years now,” said Lisa Monaco, who served as the top counterterrorism adviser to President Barack Obama. Given the surge in attacks linked to the far right, she said, “we need to prioritize our resources and focus on this threat.”

Senior Fellow Lisa Monaco tells Axios: “We are fooling ourselves if we think that we can do this alone, that it’s only about what happens within the borders of our country.”

Headlines and horror stories establish that cybersecurity and data privacy must be top priorities for industry and government.  Yet too many organizations remain in reactive mode rather than taking sufficient proactive steps to prioritize cybersecurity and prepare for security incidents.  Companies increasingly are judged by clients, customers and the public, as well as by regulators and […]

Ursula Burns made history as the first African American woman to lead a Fortune 500 company when she became CEO of Xerox in 2009. Her journey from a tough childhood in public housing to the top of this multibillion-dollar organisation is an inspirational one for many….Burns was an excellent student at Cathedral High School, a Catholic […]

Event showcases how NYU Tandon is solving tomorrow’s problems and closing the STEM gender gap

No student at NYU Tandon needs to be convinced about the value of an engineering degree. For anyone wanting a career as a cybersecurity specialist, designer of transportation systems, roboticist, or a plethora of other jobs, engineering school is the natural first step. But what about doctor, dentist, veterinarian, nurse, pharmacist, or physical therapist? Alexandra […]

When the Association for a Better New York (ABNY) hosted a March 11 panel on the changing face of engineering, it was readily apparent that the face to which they were referring is, more and more, a female one. The panel, moderated by Google Chief Information Officer Ben Fried, was assembled in recognition of the fact that […]

Video is taking over the internet, a fact that can be corroborated by identifying who’s hogging the web. Netflix alone is responsible for 15 percent of global internet traffic, according to a report published by bandwidth management company Sandvine. A key player in the staggering oligopoly that Netflix and its competitors have created is Tony Jebara, […]

Tandon Engineers Are Partnering With Clinicians to Help Make Disease Prediction, Diagnosis, and Treatment More Effective Than Ever

Iddo Drori, CDS Adjunct Associate Professor, Kyunghyun Cho, Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Data Science, Claudio Silvaand Juliana Freire, Professors of Data Science, Computer Science, and Engineering, Remi Rampin, CDS Research Engineer, and Yamuna Krishnamurthy, Raoni de Paula Lourenco, Jorge Piazentin, NYU Tandon School of Engineering, contributed to the recent paper, AlphaD3M: Machine Learning Pipeline Synthesis. 

With the worldwide market for 3D-printed parts now a $5 billion business, interest in the field is booming among members of industry, academia, and even the general public. One of the major sectors vying to remain on the cutting edge of additive manufacturing (AM), as 3D printing is also known, is aerospace, and as the editors […]

Kurt Becker, NYU Tandon’s Vice Dean for Research, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship, is among a group of prominent plasma scientists from the U.S., Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic, Italy, Slovenia, Japan, and Australia who published a seminal report on the Future of Plasma Science and Plasma Technology.  The study, published in the journal Plasma Processes and Polymers, […]

… It is long past time for gender barriers to fall in our field. … We should care because research shows that diversity makes us smarter and diverse groups perform better. We should care because we are scientists, and scientists respond to research. … 

To help cerebral palsy patients get the needed therapeutic braces and prosthetics that insurance companies can be reluctant to pay for, experts and innovators from New York University are collaborating on a new, low-cost approach to custom hand orthotics. The collaboration is coming together in the NYU Tandon School of Engineering’s MakerSpace, a cutting-edge laboratory designed […]

… Taught by a diverse staff of leading academics and practitioners, AIFI’s course will teach the theory and practical implementation of artificial intelligence and machine learning tools in investment management. … AIFI faculty will be composed of luminaries including: Igor Halperin, PhD, Research Professor at NYU Tandon.

BROOKLYN, New York, Weekday, December 12, 2018 – Researchers from the New York University Tandon School of Engineering and Politecnico di Torino, Italy, have developed a mathematical model that could cure the potential to underestimate how quickly diseases spread. The team discovered that current predictive models may miss the influence of a critical aspect of the […]

BROOKLYN, New York, Wednesday, December 5, 2018 – The New York University Tandon School of Engineering’s Financial Engineering master’s degree program has b­een named among the top ten in the 2019 QuantNet ranking.

Election tampering, Facebook data harvesting, and other privacy breaches have stoked political and personal safety concerns and undermined faith in the cyber-structures that increasingly control modern life. What can individuals do to protect themselves against these attacks? And what amount of privacy are people willing to forfeit for increased security?

ConEd’s Cybersecurity Team Speaks to Students about Career Opportunities

NYU Tandon School of Engineering and Agari Develop a Free Visualization Tool to Bring Cyber Criminals to Justice

“… How to move from pilot projects to large-scale initiatives is one of the challenges addressed by the II World Data Forum of the UN , which … brings together more than 2,000 data specialists from the public sector, private, academic and civil society in Dubai. … The co-founder of the Governance Laboratory (GovLab) of […]

“Multiple institutions of higher education will be playing a big role in Cyber NYC, a $30 million initiative launched by the New York City Economic Development Corp. to make New York a worldwide hub for cybersecurity innovation. City University of New York (CUNY), Columbia University, New York University and Cornell Tech will be in charge […]

Anima Anandkumar, Bren professor of computing and mathematical sciences at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and Director of Research in Machine Learning at NVIDIA offered her insights on data, algorithms and cloud Infrastructure — the three pillars of artificial intelligence — for developing scalable and easily available datasets for training systems.

Giuseppe Loianno Wins National American Italian Foundation’s Young Investigator Award

University Research Center C2SMART and NYC’s Department of Transportation Will Bring Together Experts to Discuss Real-World Impacts and Challenges

Kai-Fu Lee, considered a “rock star in the world of Artificial Intelligence” visits Tandon to deliver a lecture on everything AI.

“Former CIA Director Gen. David Petraeus and former White House Homeland Security adviser Lisa Monaco assess America’s cybersecurity posture and the cyber priorities of the Trump administration and Congress.”

Deadly diseases like Ebola and the avian flu are only one flight away. The U.S. government must start taking preparedness seriously.

We are excited to announce that Lisa Monaco, chief homeland security and counterterrorism advisor to President Barack Obama, will be serving as an Advisor to Lyft on trust and safety for our community, bringing unmatched experience as we continue to work to ensure that safety is prioritized in each and every ride.

Professor Jason Schultz on how to protect consumer data, how artificial intelligence will change the legal profession, and why he stopped using Facebook.

“Freedom Watch’s complaint cites YouTube’s decision to ban conservative pundit Alex Jones’s InfoWars channel as one example of how social media is suppressing conservative content. Apple and Facebook took similar actions against InfoWars with all three companies citing their user policies in doing so. Twitter temporarily banned Jones’s account. Those companies couldn’t have avoided noticing […]