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University Teams Win Berths at Prestigious Applied Research and Policy Competitions At NYU Cyber Security Awareness WeekBROOKLYN, N.Y., Oct. 27, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Top university students in cybersecurity research and policy scholarship will present their papers at New York University Tandon School of Engineering's Cyber Security Awareness Week (CSAW), the largest student-run cybersecurity competition in the world, November 10-12, 2016. The Applied Research Competition is a prestigious contest for graduate and doctoral level security researchers who have published papers in the past year. The Policy Competition, in its third year, challenges students to propose public policy solutions to real-world computer security challenges. The CSAW Policy Competition is organized by the NYU Center for Cybersecurity. As CSAW expands this year to include on-site competition hubs in the United Arab Emirates and at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, finalists in the Applied Research Competition — one of six CSAW contests — will compete at NYU Tandon in Brooklyn and at NYU Abu Dhabi. Ten papers on the application of security technology, the implementation of security systems, or lessons learned made the final round in the United States. CSAW Applied Research finalists, listed with the student author presenting the work at CSAW, followed by other contributing authors are: Acing the IOC Game: Toward Automatic Discovery and Analysis of Open-Source Cyber Threat Intelligence TrackMeOrNot: Enabling Flexible Control on Web Tracking Measuring and Mitigating AS-level Adversaries Against Tor Trusted Browsers for Uncertain Times Towards SDN-Defined Programmable BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) Security Hidden Voice Commands One Bit Flips, One Cloud Flops: Cross-VM Row Hammer Attacks and Privilege Escalation APISan: Sanitizing API Usages through Semantic Cross-Checking A Principled Approach for ROP Defense SPIFFY: Inducing Cost-Detectability Tradeoffs for Persistent Link-Flooding Attacks "We chose research finalists based on innovative ideas that top industry security researchers thought might someday transform our approach to securing their systems," said Damon McCoy, assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at NYU Tandon School of Engineering, and CSAW Applied Research Competition faculty mentor. The five CSAW Policy Competition finalists are: George Mason University School of Law and George Washington University School of Law The Pennsylvania State University University of Illinois College of Law University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign United States Naval Academy This year, students learned how market failures can lead to consumer data breaches, and responded with a government policy proposal to address these failures. "The rapidly evolving cybersecurity landscape has raised questions about how much money companies should spend on data security," said Kevin Kirby, a third-year student at the NYU School of Law and student leader of the CSAW Policy Competition. "We asked our competitors for policy proposals that would ensure that the true costs of data insecurity are allocated appropriately." The University of Illinois and the United States Naval Academy will return as finalists once again this year after placing among the podium finishers in both 2014 and 2015. All finalists will present a revised and expanded version of their first-round proposal to a panel of experts who will evaluate the feasibility of the authors' proposals, the creativity of their ideas, and their understanding of the issues at play. Sponsors for CSAW 2016 are: Gold Level — Palo Alto Networks, Trend Micro, and U.S. Department of Homeland Security; Silver Level — Bridgewater, Google, IBM, and Kroll; Bronze Level — Bank of America, Facebook, Jefferies, Navy Civilian Careers, NCC Group, Raytheon, Two Sigma; Supporting Level — Bloomberg, Cubic, EY, Intel, National Security Agency, Optiv, The Ruth & Jerome A. Siegel Foundation, Sandia National Laboratories, and U.S. Secret Service; Contributing Level — ACSA, Altera, Carnegie Mellon University and Cigital. For more information on CSAW, visit https://csaw.engineering.nyu.edu. Follow @CSAW_NYUTandon. About the NYU Tandon School of Engineering About the NYU Center for Cyber Security Logo - http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20151013/276541LOGO
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