The Fordham Center for Cybersecurity (FCC)

The Fordham Center for Cybersecurity (FCC) is an interdisciplinary and interschool hub for cybersecurity education, research, and training. It provides current and future professionals with the knowledge and skills in various areas of cybersecurity, through research, degree programs, certificates, and participation in cyber competitions and community outreach. The FCC is University-wide and works with Fordham schools and departments to offer faculty and students a wide array of opportunities.

Fordham and the M.S. in Cybersecurity Program have recently been designated as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense Education (CAE-CDE).

NSA and Homeland Security Designate Fordham as a Center for Excellence in Cybersecurity.

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Cybersecurity Conference Addresses the Threat Within

The Hollywood version of a hacker who infiltrates a computer system may look like someone hunched over a laptop in a dark remote location. In fact, according to the FBI, between a quarter and half of all daily cyberthreats come from “insider threats.” On March 16, law enforcement, private industry, and academic leaders convened at …

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Ukraine Cybersecurity Officials Describe Defense Against Cyber War

From the moment a group of Ukrainian officials entered the room for a July 20 panel on Ukraine’s virtual front line amidst Russian aggression, the mood palpably shifted. Here, after two days of discussions on previous hacks and potential threats, sat four people who left a war-torn nation for the first time since Russia attacked …

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Easing Suspicion About Smart Cities

At a July 20 panel on smart cities, Fordham Law graduate Yoram Elkaim, vice president of legal for Google in Europe, Middle East, and Africa, asked, “In a smart city is there such a thing as anonymity anymore?” “As a student here, we learned a lot about the right to privacy and the Fourth Amendment, …

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Experts Discuss How to Protect Top-Secret Information From Insider Risks

The greatest risk to a government or private organization isn’t always an outside threat. Sometimes it’s a current or former employee—and the harm is often done unintentionally. In the panel “Insider Risk: Mind Games” at the 2022 International Conference on Cyber Security on July 20, four experts on managing insider risk discussed the challenges that …

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Panel Warns of Sophisticated State-Sponsored Cyberattacks and Ransomware

The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated many of the trends in cyber warfare that had already been picking up steam, making cooperation between likeminded countries and global corporations more important than ever, panelists agreed in a discussion at Fordham on July 19. “Geopolitics and Cyber Risk,” a discussion moderated by Joshua Larocca, managing director of the firm …

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Relationships Prove Critical in ‘Constantly Evolving’ Cyberthreat Landscape

One of the first cases Anthony Ferrante, FCRH ’01, GSAS ’04, worked on when he joined the FBI involved a terrorist cell using advanced technologies to plan an attack against the U.S. “It was during our work in this case that I saw the impressive power of likeminded individuals from public and private entities around …

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Panel Explores Susceptibility of Supply Chains to Cybercrime

Global supply chains have always been susceptible to disruptions, but the risk is greater than ever now, as every node in the process is now online and susceptible to hacking. That was one of the takeaways of “Making Sense Out of Supply Chain Chaos,” a panel held on July 19 as part of the International …

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Google Executive Urges Transparency in the Cybersecurity Community

Google protects more people online than any other company in the world, but that wasn’t always the case, said Kent Walker, president of global affairs at Google and its parent company, Alphabet. In his keynote speech “On Transparency in the Shadowy World of Cyberattacks” at Fordham’s 2022 International Conference on Cyber Security on July 19, …

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Cyber Vulnerabilities: Lessons From the C-Suite

In a panel that wove together an infamous Hollywood hacking case with corporate culture and law enforcement, Fordham Trustee Ed Stroz moderated a conversation between FBI Supervisory Special Agent Amit S. Kachhia-Patel and Fordham Board Chair-Elect Armando Nuñez, former CEO of the Global Distribution Group at ViacomCBS. Both Stroz and Nuñez are alumni of the …

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US Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco Announces Seizure of Ransomware Payments at Opening of ICCS 2022

United States Deputy Attorney General Lisa O. Monaco gave the opening keynote at the ninth International Conference on Cyber Security (ICCS), held at Fordham Law and jointly sponsored by Fordham and the FBI. “At the Justice Department, keeping the American people safe from all threats, foreign and domestic, is an essential part of our mission. …

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FBI and NSA Directors Talk Election Cyberthreats at ICCS

Ahead of the 2022 midterm elections, FBI Director Christopher Wray and NSA Director General Paul Nakasone said their agencies are working to address new and continuing threats against the country’s elections. “I think we’re concerned about the same usual suspects in terms of nation states—Russia, Iran, China, each in their own way,” Wray said. He …

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