Cybersecurity hotlines at colleges could go a long way toward filling the skills gap
Summary: The University of Texas at Austin is launching a cybersecurity clinic where faculty and students provide pro-bono services such as incident response, general advice and ransomware defense to community organizations, non-profits and small businesses. Similar clinics at UC Berkeley and the University of Indiana have existed for more than four years, and the Consortium of Cybersecurity Clinics, formed in 2021, now has 14 member universities offering comparable free services.
Bottom line: Small organizations without the resources to build a security program are also the most likely to pay a ransom to get back to normal, and these clinics put students in front of that problem while the skills gap and defender burnout leave private and public sectors short of practitioners.
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