The Center for Security and Disaster Response (SDR) opened at NYIT in 2006. The SDR focuses on domestic and international issues pertaining to defense and crisis situations. The center is involved in the following areas:

Security:

• Business Security
• Terrorism/Counter-Terrorism
• Counter Insurgency
• Corporate and Industrial Terrorism
• Business Continuity/Risk Assessment
• Chemical/Biological Weapons

Espionage:

• Corporate Espionage
• Information/Data Protection and Recovery
• Identity Theft/Loss Prevention Technology
• Industrial Terrorism
• Computer Crimes
• Information Warfare

Emergency Response:

• Emergency Management
• Incident Command Systems
• Public Health Crisis Management
• Community Health Response
• Crisis Information/Data

Our Mission

1. To maintain an active and vibrant center of activity that bridges the academic and policy communities
2. To bring together current faculty, students, and outside professionals from criminal justice/private security, information/data protection, engineer/technology business, and medical disciplines
3. To produce a new generation of students, scholars, and policymakers that are fully knowledgeable and prepared for criminal justice/private security, information/data protection, emergency/public health issues, that involve the use of engineering/technological applications
4. To foster and sponsor projects that will lead to the development of advanced polices for enhancing the field of private security, information/data protection, emergency/public health issues, and engineering/technology
5. To create a network environment that can benefit students and enhance NYIT's abilities to secure funds/grants from professional corporations.

Contact

Maria LaPadula, Ph.D., Chair
Department of Behavioral Sciences
New York Institute of Technology
Northern Boulevard
Old Westbury, NY 11568-8000
Phone: 516.686.3869
E-mail: mlapadul@nyit.edu