Institute for Cyber Law, Policy, and Security

As it approaches its 10th year, the lauded Pitt Cyber program is innovating its approach to help grow the national cybersecurity workforce.

The Pitt-Greensburg and Pitt Cyber faculty member discusses technology issues and current events like AI, digital hygiene and more on the recurring segment.

The program, now in its eighth year, was spotlighted in a recent White House report for helping to develop the national cybersecurity workforce.

The Pitt Cyber program has pledged to train 500 high school students in cybersecurity basics by 2028.

Jessica Kuntz and Yu-Ru Lin will lead policy and research for the institute, respectively.

The Pitt Cyber founding director will provide his expertise to the think tank’s Strategic Technologies Program.

“It’s not just the federal government and social media platforms that have a role to play in combating disinformation,” says Pitt Cyber founding director David Hickton of the new Pitt Disinformation Lab (PDL). “The animating vision of PDL is to build local resilience to disinformation right here, right now.”

Experts from the Swanson School of Engineering, the School of Computing and Information and the Institute for Cyber Law, Policy, and Security join a new consortium to produce methods, standards and tools to address complex cybersecurity vulnerabilities in manufacturing.

Election Day 2020 is sure to be one for the history books. Pittwire asked a handful of students and faculty: What are you doing on Nov. 3?

In a year where the COVID-19 pandemic has altered usual in-person voting procedures and campaigns have raised early doubts about whether results will be accurate, Pitt experts say voters should be prepared for a range of outcomes.