Cybersecurity
Our world-class faculty are driving security innovation in myriad fields, including AI, Applied Cryptography, Deepfake Detection, Quantum Engineering, and more.
18th
Ranked cybersecurity program, US News & World Report 2025
52K
Sq. ft. research and education center, home to RIT's state-of-the-art Cyber Range
18
Years that RIT has been designated a National Centers of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance/Cybersecurity Education by NSA and Department of Homeland Security
11
Years hosting the largest offense-based cybersecurity competition for college students
ESL Global Cybersecurity Institute
At RIT’s ESL Global Cybersecurity Institute, we educate and train cybersecurity professionals; develop new cybersecurity and AI-based knowledge for industry, academia, and government; and perform systems and network security testing for a wide range of partners.
Our students and researchers are working to build secure systems, software, devices, and technologies of the future, while providing resources to commercialize methods, algorithms, software, devices, and designs in cybersecurity to launch scalable entrepreneurial ventures.
Related Degree Programs
- Computer Engineering BS
(Accelerated dual degree available) - Computer Engineering MS
- Computer Science BS
(Accelerated dual degree available) - Computer Science MS
- Computing and Information Sciences Ph.D.
- Cybersecurity BS
(Accelerated dual degree available) - Cybersecurity MS
- Cybersecurity Adv. Cert.
Related News
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February 7, 2024
Raising awareness on Safer Internet Day
Spectrum News talks with Jonathan Weissman, principal lecturer in the Department of Cybersecurity, and Anthony Ioppolo, a fourth-year cybersecurity major, about Safer Internet Day and cybersecurity online.
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February 7, 2024
All about deepfake technology
South Korean international broadcasting station KBS World Radio talks about deepfakes with Matthew Wright, professor and chair of the Department of Cybersecurity. The interview, on the daily current affairs show Korea24, starts at 19 minutes and 50 seconds and ends around 40 minutes and 45 seconds.
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February 5, 2024
AI red teams see the internet's worst so we don't have to
WBUR talks to Evan Selinger, professor in the Department of Philosophy, about teams who identify and address harmful aspects of artificial intelligence by testing and providing feedback on AI responses.
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February 1, 2024
RIT working on ‘De-Fake’ project to detect what’s real on the internet
WROC-TV talks to John Sohrawardi, a cybersecurity Ph.D. student, about the dangers of deepfake imagery.