RIT opened the doors to its world-class home for cybersecurity in 2020, and it’s making the university one of the best places for cybersecurity education, training, and research.

The world’s best cybersecurity students came together at RIT to face-off in the Collegiate Penetration Testing Competition (CPTC) global finals Jan. 13-15. The event wrapped up the largest offense-based cybersecurity competition for college students, which is hosted annually by RIT.

RIT and Alstom are coming together to help advance cybersecurity education, development, and research in the transportation industry. Through a new collaboration, the French mobility technology company will provide RIT students with educational, research, and career opportunities. Alstom has also been named theme-sponsor for RIT’s next Global Collegiate Penetration Testing Competition (CPTC) in 2023-2024.

The best white hat cybersecurity students will work to phish and exploit their way to a championship trophy at the Collegiate Penetration Testing Competition (CPTC) global finals Jan. 13–15. The event is the culmination of the world’s largest offense-based collegiate cybersecurity competition, hosted by RIT.

RIT’s ESL Global Cybersecurity Institute won an Outstanding Project Award in the Fall 2022 Learning By Design magazine Educational Facilities Design Awards.

Discover magazine features Rob Olson, senior lecturer in the Department of Computing Security.

RIT cybersecurity experts are helping make instant messaging safer for activists in countries controlled by restrictive regimes. Pentesters from RIT’s ESL Global Cybersecurity Institute performed a security assessment of Partisan Telegram, a customized version of the Telegram messaging app. RIT was selected to conduct the assessment by a nonprofit organization that supports global internet freedom.

Professor S. Jay Yang sees collaboration as the key to combating international cybersecurity threats. That’s why the director of global outreach for RIT’s ESL Global Cybersecurity Institute is helping lead an alliance of cybersecurity researchers from the U.S., Northern Ireland, and the Republic of Ireland.

RIT cybersecurity experts recently worked with the credit analysts from S&P Global Ratings in an educational partnership aimed at better framing the impact that cyber risk plays on an organization’s creditworthiness.

The RIT community welcomed His Excellency Sekou Berthe, the ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary of the Republic of Mali to the United States of America, on Oct. 4.