Faculty

Randal S. Milch

  • Professor of Practice
Assistant: Mindy Darwish
  mhd7621@nyu.edu
Randal S. Milch

Randal Milch is the Co-Chair of the NYU Center for Cybersecurity, a Distinguished Fellow at the Reiss Center on Law and Security, and a Professor of Practice at NYU School of Law. He serves as the Faculty Co-Director of the MS in Cybersecurity Risk and Strategy Program. Prior to coming to NYU, Milch was the General Counsel and head of public policy at Verizon Communications. At Verizon, Milch chaired the Verizon Executive Security Council, which oversaw information security across all Verizon entities. Milch was responsible for national security matters at Verizon beginning in 2006, and has served as the senior cleared executive at Verizon. Earlier in his career, Milch was a partner in the Washington, DC, office of Donovan Leisure Newton & Irvine. Milch holds a JD from New York University School of Law and a BA from Yale University.

Courses

  • Cybersecurity Law and Technology Seminar

    We are responding to the cyber-security crisis with a hodgepodge of disconnected private and public initiatives. A comprehensive response is out of reach because there is no integrated set of laws or policies governing the threat and the response to it; the pace of technological advance far outstrips that of regulation; and governance remains fundamentally domestic while the technology of threat and response knows no boundaries. A wide variety of laws created for other situations – ranging from disparate privacy statutes, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, surveillance statutes and sector-specific regulatory enactments – are being brought to bear as rights and responsibilities are sorted out. Technology and policy are interdependent in cyberspace. The key to intelligent application of the disparate regulatory and policy schemes – and the basis for intelligent development of law and policy – is a thorough understanding of the technology that underlies the current and future security of the Internet. At the same time, the engineers who build products and solve problems can increase the range of policy choices if they appreciate the range of policy needs and legal/compliance requirements, including those that are inefficient or counter-intuitive from an engineering point of view. This seminar -- featuring lecturers from the Tandon School of Engineering and bi-weekly cybersecurity labs -- aims to bring the relevant technology and the current legal landscape together, for a richer understanding of each.

  • Cybersecurity Scholars Workshop

    This is a paper and project-discussion seminar available only to holders of one of the following cybersecurity scholarships which require the writing of a substantial cybersecurity-related paper: ASPIRE Scholar; Cybersecurity Service Scholar; NYU Cyber Scholar; Latham & Watkins Scholar.

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