"Google Announces Inaugural Cohort in Cybersecurity Initiative"

Researchers at Cornell Tech and the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science are part of the first cohort of participants from four institutions to receive funding from the Google Cyber New York City (NYC) Institutional Research Program. The Google-funded effort aims to improve online privacy, safety, and security standards while also establishing NYC as a hub for cybersecurity research. In collaboration with Google, seven projects from Cornell faculty that combine basic research with computer innovations to provide solutions to cybersecurity issues in society have been selected. Each team will receive funding and access to Google Cloud Platform credits for up to three years while working with a Google sponsor. One of the inaugural projects from Cornell focuses on the theoretical foundations of post-quantum cryptography, cryptographic methods that enable a traditional computer to defend itself against attacks from a quantum computer (i.e., one that uses the quantum states of subatomic particles to store information and that can solve complex problems). As quantum computing technology progresses, the significance of this work grows. This article continues to discuss the projects from Cornell faculty that have been selected to provide solutions to cybersecurity issues. 

Cornell University reports "Google Announces Inaugural Cohort in Cybersecurity Initiative"