U.S. News & World Report Ranks NYU Online Graduate Computer Information Tech Program Among Top Three in Nation

 BROOKLYN, N.Y., Jan. 10, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- U.S. News & World Report today ranked New York University Tandon School of Engineering's online graduate program in Computer Information Technology No. 3 in the nation and the best in the Northeast region. Falling within that category are NYU Tandon's offerings in information systems, computer engineering, bioinformatics, software engineering, and cybersecurity, which is the most popular and competitive online program at the school.

NYU Tandon's entire online graduate engineering program ranked No. 11 nationally, the fifth successive year that U.S. News & World Report rated the school among the top dozen such programs.

For the 2017 Best Online Graduate Programs rankings, U.S. News reviewed such factors as admissions requirements, retention and graduation rates, student engagement and services, peer reputation, faculty credentials and training. A survey of on-line graduates by NYU Tandon revealed 100 percent job placement within six months of graduation; for those already holding jobs, 73 percent reported they received a promotion or raise within the same period.

Although the online engineering program chiefly attracts professionals in the United States who are pursuing their master's degrees (93 percent of enrollees), the online classes are open to NYU Tandon's bricks-and-mortar students, too. The school's survey revealed its traditionally enrolled international students valued the closed-captioned and recorded lectures offered by online courses because they could study at their own pace.

"We are exceedingly pleased to be recognized among the 2017 Best Online Graduate Engineering Programs and gratified to have our Computer Information Technology offerings listed at number 3 in the nation," said Dean Katepalli R. Sreenivasan. "The pedagogical techniques and virtual laboratories that we have helped pioneer have opened research and higher-education opportunities to talented students whose schedules might otherwise preclude such opportunities. Our world becomes a better place with such highly motivated, educated, and skilled engineers willing to undertake society's biggest challenges."

"NYU Tandon has always striven to make our virtual classrooms among the most rigorous yet supportive in the world, and it is gratifying to have that affirmed by such a highly respected publication," said Nasir Memon, a professor of computer science and engineering and the new head of NYU Tandon Online. 

On January 1, 2017, Memon assumed the role of associate dean for online learning, succeeding now-vice dean emeritus Robert Ubell, a widely recognized proponent of online learning and a past recipient of the A. Frank Mayadas Leadership Award from the Online Learning Consortium.  Memon founded NYU Tandon's cybersecurity program, acknowledged among the leaders in the country and one of only a handful in the country to earn all three Center of Excellence designations from the National Security Agency. He also founded the largest student-run cybersecurity competition in the world, and was instrumental in the growth of NYU Tandon's online offerings. NYU Tandon cybersecurity master's degree program was once named the nation's number-one online program by the Online Learning Consortium.

Although not part of the programs surveyed for the rankings, one of the school's newest and most unusual  online efforts is "A Bridge to NYU Tandon," a unique program that gives students lacking a background in computer science a gateway to a master's degree in the field. Those completing the 15-week Bridge course with a grade of B+ or better (and who meet all other NYU Tandon admissions requirements) can qualify for the NYU Tandon master's program in computer science or cybersecurity.

NYU Tandon piloted a system of "active learning" — which engages students in interactive modules — for professional education classes developed with Scientific American. It later rolled out the pedagogical approach across all its online courses, and students continue to benefit from unlimited access to lectures and assignments, a 24/7 help desk, and connect to the global NYU community from anywhere in the world. During real-time webinars, students participate in live Q&A sessions. With their instructor and fellow students, they share ideas using webinars, screen recording and sharing, discussion boards, chat rooms, virtual labs, interactive polling, and built-in phone and VOIP lines. High-quality video, audio, multimedia, and animation also engage students.

The 2017 rankings can be viewed atwww.usnews.com/online. For more information on Tandon Online, visit http://engineering.nyu.edu/academics/online.

About the NYU Tandon School of EngineeringThe NYU Tandon School of Engineering dates to 1854, when the New York University School of Civil Engineering and Architecture as well as the Brooklyn Collegiate and Polytechnic Institute (widely known as Brooklyn Poly) were founded. Their successor institutions merged in January 2014 to create a comprehensive school of education and research in engineering and applied sciences, rooted in a tradition of invention, and entrepreneurship and dedicated to furthering technology in service to society. In addition to its main location in Brooklyn, NYU Tandon collaborates with other schools within the country's largest private research university and is closely connected to engineering programs in NYU Abu Dhabi and NYU Shanghai. It operates business incubators in downtown Manhattan and Brooklyn and an award-winning online graduate program. For more information, visit http://engineering.nyu.edu.

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Anybody can download a 30-day trial of the program. The initial download is just a stub that downloads the latest version of the actual software, automatically choosing 32-bit or 64-bit as appropriate. To upgrade to a paid version, you enter your license key on the About page. Quick Heal wants to know quite a bit about you. In addition to an email address, it wants your full name, a phone number, and your country, state, and city. Picking your country and state from a drop down list is common, but I was surprised when choosing California caused the next entry to display a list of every city in California.

Immediately after installation, you're prompted to connect with Quick Heal Remote Device Management. You create an online account, with your email address and a password, and enter the product key again. Then you turn on the feature within Quick Heal, which gives you a one-time password that must be entered back in the online console. This complicated handshake might be a bit daunting for the neophyte user. In any case, the Remote Device Management account is only truly useful for mobile

 The components of the program's main window haven't changed, but they're colored and arranged slightly differently. You still see a big banner reporting the system's security status above four panels representing Files & Folders, Emails, Internet & Network, and External Drives & Devices. A News panel now appears at the bottom, with links to educational articles on security.

Mixed Lab Results
When I reviewed the previous version of Quick Heal, it appeared in almost none of the lab tests I follow. Things have changed for the better since then. Quick Heal received certification for malware detection from ICSA Labs. This sort of certification is different from scored lab tests. If a vendor's product doesn't initially achieve certification, ICSA Labs helps the vendor remediate any problems and attain certification.

Quick Heal is now also on the radar of the experts at AV-Test Institute, who evaluate antivirus products three different ways. Naturally they measure how effective the antivirus is at protecting against malware infestation. They rate its effect on system performance. And they calculate a usability score that's highest when the product exhibits the fewest false positives (valid programs or websites flagged as malicious). A product can earn 6 points in each category; Quick Heal got 5.5 in each, for a total of 16.5 points. That's decent, but in this same test Bitdefender Antivirus Plus 2017, Kaspersky, and Trend Micro Antivirus+ Security earned a perfect 18 points.

Lab Test Results Chart

Quick Heal also now participates in four of the five tests by AV-Comparatives that I follow. A product that simply passes one of this lab's tests earns Standard certification. Those that go above and beyond the minimum needed to pass get certified at the Advanced or Advanced+ level. Quick Heal earned Advanced+ in the performance test and the static file detection test. In a test that measures how thoroughly products clean up malware that all of them detect, Quick Heal took an Advanced certification. And in the important whole-product dynamic test it was certified at the Standard level.

These aren't bad scores, but Avira Antivirus Pro 2016 took an Advanced+ rating in all four of the same tests. Bitdefender and Kaspersky Anti-Virus did the same in all five of the tests that I follow. Overall, though, Quick Heal made a much better showing than when I reviewed it last.

Scan Choices
A full scan of my standard clean system took Quick Heal just 36 minutes. That's pretty quick, given that the current average is 45 minutes. It finished a second scan in just 7 minutes, demonstrating some form of optimization during the first scan. Some products take that optimization even further. For example, a repeat scan with F-Secure Anti-Virus 2016 finished in just two minutes.

You can choose to just scan for malware in memory, or to scan a specific drive or folder, if you prefer. For malware that manages to resist the normal scan, you can choose a Boot Time Scan instead, either a full scan or a quick scan of areas where malware commonly lurks. When you reboot the system, the text-only Boot Time Scan goes into action at the very beginning of the boot process, before rootkits and other persistent malware types have had a chance to load.

It's always possible that malware could render your PC unusable, either accidentally, due to bad coding, or on purpose, locking you out until you pay a ransom. Quick Heal does offer screen locker protection in the form of a special keystroke that can break you free from certain screen locking ransomware types. But sometimes you just can't run Windows, or can't run Quick Heal. That's where the Emergency Disk comes in. devices.

As soon as you install Quick Heal, you should click the Tools menu and click Create Emergency Disk. A wizard guides you to download the latest content for the disk, and then handles the task of creating a bootable USB or CD/DVD. I had some trouble booting my test system from the Emergency Disk, which is not surprising given that I test on a virtual machine. It did boot, but then rebooted over and over. I did see enough to know that it boots in to a portable Windows environment, not a Linux variant.

Also on the Tools page is a separate AntiMalware scanner that focuses on edge cases like spyware, adware, fake antivirus, and so on. When I ran this scan it finished in a trice, reporting no malware found.

Some Slipups in Malware Removal
I continued my testing by opening the folder that contains my current set of malware samples. Quick Heal started picking them off right away, eliminating 58 percent of the samples on sight. Others have done much better at this stage of testing. For example, Check Point ZoneAlarm PRO Antivirus + Firewall 2017 killed off 81 percent of the samples on sight, and Trend Micro whacked 94 percent of them.

Next, I launched each sample that survived the initial purge. Every single one of them launched and at least started to install. That's quite different from my experience with McAfee AntiVirus Plus, which so thoroughly quashed execution for most of the samples that it freaked Windows out, causing a "file not found" error. Quick Heal did detect almost all of the samples during installation, for a total detection rate of 94 percent. However, it allowed half of those it detected to plant one or more malware executables on the test system. Those executable files dragged its malware blocking score down to 8.5.

Malware Blocking Results Chart

For a different look at Quick Heal's ability to protect against malware attack, I started with a feed of malware-hosting URLs from MRG-Effitas, URLs no more than a day old. I launched each and noted whether Quick Heal steered the browser away from the URL, eliminated the malware download, or sat idly doing nothing.

Out of 100 verified malware-hosting URLs, Quick Heal blocked 92 percent, almost all of them by keeping the browser from ever reaching the URL. That puts it among the top few contenders in this test. Symantec Norton AntiVirus Basic blocked 98 percent of its challenge URLs, and Avira blocked 99 percent.

So-So Phishing Protection
The same Web-level protection that fends off malicious URLs also serves to steer naïve users away from phishing sites, frauds that try to steal login credentials by imitating financial sites or other secure sites. In fact, the warning page that appears in the browser is precisely the same for a malicious URL as for a fraudulent one. However, Quick Heal wasn't quite as effective against the frauds.

Phishing websites are ephemeral, because they quickly get blacklisted and shut down. That doesn't bother the fraudsters; they just open another fake site. But it does mean that I need the very newest phishing URLs for testing. I scrape phishing-oriented websites to capture URLs that have been reported as fraudulent but that haven't yet been analyzed.

Antiphishing Results Chart

The phishing URLs are different each time, and different fraud styles come and go. Rather than report hard detection-rate numbers, I report the difference between product's protection rate and Norton's. Why Norton? For ages it has consistently done a really good job detecting the very latest phishing frauds. It beats almost all the competition; Bitdefender, Kaspersky, and Webroot SecureAnywhere AntiVirus are the only recent products to outperform Norton.

Quick Heal didn't join those products in the top tier. In fact, it lagged 32 percentage points behind Norton, and 24 points behind the protection built into Chrome. It eked out a 5 percentage point advantage over Internet Explorer and handily drubbed Firefox. On the plus side, the previous edition of Quick Heal didn't even offer phishing protection, so this is a big step up.

Uneven Firewall
The first challenge for any third-party firewall is that it must protect the system at least as well as the built-in Windows Firewall. Quick Heal fell down at this step. While it stealthed almost all of my test system's ports, it left the all-important HTML port 80 wide open. In addition, one of my Web-based tests revealed that it let the system respond to what's called a ping echo, a technique used by malefactors to troll the Internet for victims. That's not a good start.

Program control is the other main feature of most third-party firewalls. In Quick Heal this feature is a bit simplistic. Some settings are extreme. At the Low level, the firewall just allows all traffic. At the Block level, it blocks all traffic, including Quick Heal's own. There's also a mode to only allow Internet access for known and trusted programs. When I turned on this mode, trying to go online using my hand-coded tiny browser didn't trigger any kind of warning. It just displayed an error message.

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Random-access memory (RAM /ræm/) is a form of computer data storage which stores frequently used program instructions to increase the general speed of a system. A random-access memory device allows data items to be read or written in almost the same amount of time irrespective of the physical location of data inside the memory. In contrast, with other direct-access data storage media such as hard disks, CD-RWs, DVD-RWs and the older drum memory, the time required to read and write data items varies significantly depending on their physical locations on the recording medium, due to mechanical limitations such as media rotation speeds and arm movement.

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In today's technology, random-access memory takes the form of integrated circuits. RAM is normally associated with volatile types of memory (such as DRAM memory modules), where stored information is lost if power is removed, although many efforts have been made to develop non-volatile RAM chips.^[1] Other types of non-volatile memories exist that allow random access for read operations, but either do not allow write operations or have other kinds of limitations on them. These include most types of ROM and a type of flash memory called NOR-Flash.

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