A recent article in ComputerWorld profiled NYU-Poly, and specifically the ISIS lab, as 1 of 10 “IT Schools to Watch.”
When Stan Nurilov attended Polytechnic Institute of New York University in an accelerated bachelor’s/master’s of computer science program from 2002 to 2006, he truly enjoyed the technical courses he took in areas like operating systems and databases.
But it wasn’t until he graduated and began working as a software developer/project leader for a branch of the U.S. military that Nurilov fully appreciated the project-level courses that taught him about leadership qualities.
“Those classes really help me when I need to work with customers and gain collaboration on projects,” he says.
Stan is a graduate of our SFS program that pays for two years of tuition, rent, and other expenses in exchange for a commitment to work at a government agency for two years.
Head over to ComputerWorld and read the rest of the article!
Of all the things that happened this weekend, I didn’t expect this! I registered but I probably wouldn’t have played if Tom Brennan hadn’t frantically raced up to me at about 6:30 on Friday to tell me that I had to =). Thanks Tom!
I’ll talk about some of the challenges I went through, but if you’re really interested in these kinds of things you should compete in one of the capture the flag competitions that I developed for these upcoming events:
- NYU-Poly’s Cyber Security Awareness Week – A yearly event for students that our lab puts on. Compete in 7 different information security competitions for prizes! If you win, we’ll pay for you to come to NYC and collect your prize!
- OWASP AppSec NYC – A 2-day web application security conference taking place downtown this September. There will be a web capture the flag contest, also with prizes. Everyone is welcome to play and challenges will be accessible to beginners and experts alike!
Now about HOPE/Packetwars CTF… Continue reading ‘I won HOPE/Packetwars CTF!’
ISIS lab alumni, Mike Aiello, will be on CBS National News @ 6pm on Sunday, April 6th talking about RFID security. Mike runs DIFRWear, a company that makes RFID-blocking apparel.
-3 days: ISIS Labs is bringing 6 of its finest to compete in the North-East Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (NECCDC) in Rochester, NY this weekend. Wish us luck!
I’ll try and keep you informed as to how the contest is going, what it’s like to compete in one of these things, and if we are winning by live-blogging the event from our hotel room each night. I don’t see that banned in any of the dozens of rules we’ve been made aware of so far! Continue reading ‘Blogging the NECCDC’
Adobe Tackles Photo Forgeries
Nasir Memon, the professor who oversees much of our lab, was quoted in the above article relating to Adobe’s decision to include forgery detection plugins with the next version of Photoshop. Among the areas of research currently ongoing in ISIS, multimedia forensics, watermarking, and stegonography are some of the top for PhDs.
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