Cybersecurity

The world has never been more connected. With the emergence of the Internet of Things, technology pervades nearly every aspect of our lives, creating opportunities to increase the standard of living while also introducing new threats to security and privacy. Faculty in the College of Engineering are teaching and researching a range of topics in cybersecurity and privacy, from securing software and network systems to making security and privacy more usable.

Learn more about our research by watching videos from our cybersecurity playlist.

Sep 27

Cybersecurity

A new initiative to drive financial inclusion in Africa

Funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will bring together academia, government, and the private sector to make digital financial services more accessible.

Sep 8

Artificial Intelligence

Transformational growth at CMU-Africa

A historic partnership with the Mastercard Foundation will expand the engineering and technology, research, and entrepreneurship programs at CMU-Africa, helping to strengthen Africa’s technology, innovation, and research ecosystem.

CMU’s hacking team, the Plaid Parliament of Pwning, joined forces with the University of British Columbia’s team and researchers from Theori.io to win this year’s DEF CON Capture the Flag competition.

Carnegie Mellon’s hacking team wins DEF CON

Jul 21

Cybersecurity

Inaugural conference talks digital public goods in Africa

Conrad Tucker and Assane Gueye organized the first-ever West Africa Conference on Digital Public Goods and Cybersecurity, held in Freetown, Sierra Leone.

Sep 20

Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence you can trust

Professor Ding Zhao developed a new course that trains engineering students how to make artificial intelligence trustworthy.

Aug 20

Cybersecurity

Keeping distributed systems secure

Carnegie Mellon researchers are working to design networks that keep our ever-increasing numbers of connected devices safe and secure.

Jul 29

Artificial Intelligence

Joshi to lead CMU’s AI-EDGE team

The mission of the AI-EDGE Institute is to design next-generation intelligent edge networks that are efficient, reliable, robust, and secure.

Apr 19

Cybersecurity

Crypto derivatives markets are booming

On a busy day, more than $100 billion in these derivatives are traded, rivaling the daily volume traded in the New York Stock Exchange, according to a new study authored by Carnegie Mellon University CyLab researchers.

Research paper

A new study by Conrad Tucker shows that patterns in which information is shared online may indicate the information’s authenticity.

Inferring what we share by how we share

Nov 24

Cybersecurity

Lorrie Cranor named AAAS Fellow

Lorrie Cranor has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) for her contributions to usable privacy and security research, policy, and education.

Oct 2

Artificial Intelligence

Recognizing AI’s misinformation

What does cybersecurity have to do with human recognition of false data? A lot, says Conrad Tucker, who teamed up with Challenger Center and RAND to study the link between the two.

Jun 29

Cybersecurity

The electric future of autonomous vehicles

A team of CMU Engineering researchers has shown that autonomous vehicles can be electric—despite the decreased driving range.

Mar 2

Cybersecurity

To predict an epidemic, evolution can’t be ignored

In a new study, a team of Carnegie Mellon University researchers show for the first time how important evolutionary adaptations are in predicting epidemics.

Four College of Engineering faculty members have been awarded CAREER awards by the National Science Foundation (NSF).

Engineering faculty receive CAREER awards

Sep 26

Advanced Manufacturing

Protecting 3D printers from attackers

CyLab’s researchers have developed a tool to identify security risks of networked 3D printers.

Sep 16

Cybersecurity

Power-full sound waves

Gianluca Piazza is developing a piezoelectric system that powers devices with ultrasound.

Aug 12

Cybersecurity

CMU crowned hacking champs for fifth time in seven years

Carnegie Mellon University’s competitive hacking team, the Plaid Parliament of Pwning (PPP), just won its fifth hacking world championship in seven years at this year’s DefCon security conference.

Jun 18

Cybersecurity

Securing the energy grid with blockchains

The US Department of Energy has awarded two Carnegie Mellon researchers a $400,000 grant to strengthen grid security using blockchain technology.

Apr 18

Cybersecurity

A new era for the Bosch Chair

Lorrie Cranor has received the Bosch Distinguished Professorship in Security and Privacy Technologies, enabling her to lead a new era of security and privacy research at the university.

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Centers & Institutes

CyLab

Bringing together more than 300 security and privacy experts from across the university, CyLab's mission is to create a world in which technology can be trusted.

College of Engineering research centers and institutes