News by Topic: Cybersecurity

Emery Rios, a combined accelerated cybersecurity BS/MS student, was selected for the Norman A. Miles Award for Academic Excellence in Study for the 2025-2026 academic year. The award is given to a student who began their studies as a first-year student at RIT and is entering their final year of undergraduate study with the highest grade point average across the university.

An essay by Matthew Wright, endowed professor and chair, and Christopher Schwartz, research scientist in the Department of Cybersecurity, published by The Conversation.

Brian Tomaszewski, professor in the School of Interactive Games and Media, wrote an article about using ArcGIS technology to teach students how to create geospatial digital twins. The story was published in the Spring 2025 ArcUser magazine.

TechTarget speaks to Nidhi Rastogi, assistant professor in the Department of Software Engineering, about how attack surface management can help address the growth in the number of potential entry points threat actors might exploit.

Quang Bui has been awarded a Fulbright-University of Vaasa Scholar Award. The prestigious award is administered through the U.S. Department of State and jointly funded by the Fulbright Finland Foundation and the University of Vaasa.

WHTM-TV speaks to Jonathan Weissman, principal lecturer in the Department of Cybersecurity, about the potential breach.

A team of RIT experts has created CTIBench, a new tool that evaluates how much a large language model really knows about cybersecurity. CTIBench is the first and most comprehensive benchmark in the Cyber Threat Intelligence space. The tool is already being used by Google, Cisco, and Trend Micro.

WROC-TV talks with Matthew Wright, endowed professor and chair of RIT's Department of Cybersecurity, about the capabilities of Google VEO 3 and other generative AI video platforms.

Rochester Business Journal highlights the growth of Token, a smart ring built to prevent cyberattacks, which uses technology developed by Steve Shapiro '04 (human computer interaction) and Melanie Shapiro '08 (MBA).

The TWIML AI Podcast with Sam Charrington interviewed Nidhi Rastogi, assistant professor of software engineering, about the evaluation tool CTIBench. Rastogi and a team of computing and information sciences Ph.D. students created the benchmark for evaluating large language models in cyber threat intelligence applications.

Spectrum News provides a peek at exhibits that will be on display at Imagine RIT on Saturday.

FOX Rochester highlights some of the exhibits coming up at Imagine RIT.