Security & Privacy

Columbia team earns 2nd-place at NYU cybersecurity applied research competition

“NEZHA: Efficient Domain-Independent Differential Testing” won a 2nd place prize at NYU's 14th Cyber Security Awareness Week, the world’s largest student-run cybersecurity event, featuring competitions, workshops, and industry events.

Chasing real security: An interview with Allison Bishop

In 2013, researchers—unexpectedly and in a surprising way—demonstrated how to obfuscate software in a mathematically rigorous way. Allison Bishop talks about the implications, and challenges.

Steven Bellovin among those calling for government agency to investigate cybersecurity incidents

Such an agency, modeled on the Aviation Safety Reporting System, would investigate major cyberattacks and “near misses,” publishing results so others could better understand—and avoid—the threats. Reporting would be voluntary, anonymous, and nonpunitive.

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Security and privacy research includes intrusion detection systems, cryptology, privacy-preserving computation and search, usability of security interfaces, self-healing systems, denial of service, system hardening, information accountability, hardware enabled security, and insider threats.