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.
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April 28, 2021
Imagine RIT: Creativity and Innovation Festival held virtually May 1
After a year’s hiatus due to COVID-19, the popular Imagine RIT: Creativity and Innovation Festival returns virtually on Saturday, May 1, with more than 250 exhibits of projects, research and performing arts of students, faculty, and staff at RIT.
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April 16, 2021
Internet for All + Parcel 5
The Earl David Reed, Megan and Pat radio show, on WAIO-FM (95.1), features Jonathan Weissman, senior lecturer in the Department of Computing Security, discussing New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's plan for increasing access to high-speed internet service.
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April 7, 2021
What We Watched and Facebook Data Breached
The Earl David Reed, Megan and Pat radio show, on WAIO-FM (95.1), features Jonathan Weissman, senior lecturer in the Department of Computing Security, discussing the recent Facebook data breach. The segment begins at the 14-minute mark.
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April 2, 2021
RIT researchers are making software secure by design
With more than $4 million in support from the National Science Foundation (NSF), Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and other organizations, Associate Professor Mehdi Mirakhorli and his student team are developing tools and techniques to help coders take an architectural approach to software design.