(MENAFNEditorial) iCrowdNewswire - Mar 20, 2018
CrowdStrike Chief Technology Officer and Former Department of Defense Advisor Dmitri Alperovitch to Headline NYU/AIG Lecture Series.
The latest in a series of open lectures on cybersecurity at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering will reveal what it is like to engage in the cyber equivalent of hand-to-hand combat with some of the world's most sophisticated black-hat hackers and examine the top 10 popular misconceptions that people have about cybersecurity.
Dmitri Alperovitch, co-founder and chief technology officer of the endpoint security firm CrowdStrike and a former special advisor to the U.S. Department of Defense, will headline the NYU/AIG Lecture on cybersecurity March 29, 2018.
The lecture will be given by Geoff Brown, the chief information security officer ofNew York Cityand head of NYC Cyber Command,the organization charged with directing the city's response to cyber incidents. Brown also served in the federal government, including work with the National Commission for Terrorist Attacks uponthe United States, more commonly known as the 9/11 Commission. Also appearing on the panel will beOmkhar Arasaratnam, the global director of cyber security and Americas regional head of technology security services for Credit Suisse,who holds numerous patents and has led contributions to several international standards, andGarin Pace, a cyber product leader at AIG, responsible for cyber exposure in the Financial Lines and Property products globally.RandalMilch, co-chair of the NYU Center for Cybersecurity and a distinguished fellow at the NYU Law Center on Law and Security,will moderate.
"Cyber Lecture Series 2018: Dispelling the Top 10 Myths of Cybersecurity" will take place at NYU Tandon inDowntown BrooklynonThursday, March 29, 2018, from3 to 5:30 p.m.
Sponsored by AIG, the event is the 10th in a series on cybersecurity and privacy at NYU Tandon. The series has consistently drawn high-level representatives ofNew York'sregional businesses, government agencies, nonprofits, academic institutions, media, and concerned members of the public.
"New York Universityis proud to be at the forefront of making cyberspace a safer place, and the work of our students, faculty, and researchers is playing a vital role in keeping our personal data private and our critical infrastructure and systems more impervious to malicious hackers," said Katepalli R. Sreenivasan, who holds dual roles as the dean of NYU Tandon and all engineering at the University. "We are pleased to hostDmitri Alperovitchand our esteemed panelists at this important event and are grateful to AIG for making it possible."
Admission to the event is free but space is limited and registration is required. For more information and to register to attend or to view the live stream, visit the event page at http://cyberlecture.engineering.nyu.edu . Viewers may submit questions for the panelists during the lecture at NYUschools to form the Center for Cybersecurity . It supports research into new approaches to security and privacy by combining security technology, psychology, law, public policy, and business. NYU Tandon's online master's program in cybersecurity was named the outstanding online program in the nation by the Online Learning Consortium (formerly Sloan-C), and its new Cyber Fellowship provides a flexible, affordable, academically rigorous way to earn a master's degree.
About theNew York UniversityTandon School of Engineering
The NYU Tandon School of Engineering dates to 1854, the founding date for both theNew York UniversitySchool of Civil Engineering and Architecture and the Brooklyn Collegiate and Polytechnic Institute (widely known as Brooklyn Poly). AJanuary 2014merger created a comprehensive school of education and research in engineering and applied sciences, rooted in a tradition of invention and entrepreneurship and dedicated to furthering technology in service to society. In addition to its main location inBrooklyn, NYU Tandon collaborates with other schools withinNYU, the country's largest private research university, and is closely connected to engineering programs at NYU Abu Dhabi and NYU Shanghai. It operates Future Labs focused on start-up businesses in downtownManhattanandBrooklynand an award-winning online graduate program. For more information, visit http://engineering.nyu.edu .
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