Google, in collaboration with the Consortium of Cybersecurity Clinics, is supporting selected colleges, universities, and community colleges with up to $1M each to increase access and opportunities for students interested in pursuing careers in cybersecurity. In addition, recipients can access the Google Cybersecurity Certificate, Google Titan security keys, and student mentorship opportunities from Google. See below to learn more about the first set of clinics receiving funding.
Why Cybersecurity Clinics
At Google, security has always been at the core of our products. We’ve worked to protect people, businesses and governments by sharing our expertise and advancing cybersecurity tools and resources.
This fund will strengthen existing members of the Consortium of Cybersecurity Clinics, while supporting new higher education institutions to help students build a career in cybersecurity. We want to support these institutions in building a workforce with the real-world experience needed to protect critical U.S. infrastructure - in hospitals, nonprofits, schools and utilities - from cyber attacks.
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Grantees
We are pleased to announce the first round of colleges and universities who have been awarded Cybersecurity Clinic funding from Google:
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Active Clinic
Indiana University
The IU Cybersecurity Clinic was created for the dual purposes of improving local and state cyber hygiene while training the next generation of cybersecurity leaders.
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Active Clinic
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
UNLV Free Cyber Clinic helps small businesses mitigate cybersecurity risks at no cost. It offers security auditing, security policy and business continuity plan development, security device or software configuration, employee education, and cybersecurity recommendations. The service is performed at the client site and a comprehensive assessment report is provided to the clients. The clinic recruits students with interdisciplinary backgrounds, trains them with both technical and non-technical skills, and sponsors industrial certifications. It operates year-round allowing the clients to have the service when needed and the students can gradually improve their skills over multiple years.
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Active Clinic
University of Georgia
In 2018, the University of Georgia’s Public Service and Outreach division, in collaboration with academic units across the UGA campus, launched the CyberArch initiative. CyberArch student interns, faculty and staff travel to communities throughout Georgia to conduct cybersecurity risk reviews of partner organizations and provide community-based outreach and cybersecurity training to locally based, community organizations, including city/county governments, small and medium sized businesses and nonprofits.
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Active Clinic
University of Texas at Austin
The UT Austin Applied Cybersecurity Community Clinic is the fruit of discussions with the Department of Homeland Security Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s Cybersecurity Advisory Board, the City of Austin, and UT’s Robert Strauss Center for International Security and Law, all of which were interested in providing students with hands-on cybersecurity experience while also providing pro bono services to community organizations and small businesses that cannot afford such services on their own.
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Active Clinic
UC Berkeley
Citizen Clinic is a multidisciplinary, public-interest digital security clinic within the University of California, Berkeley’s Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity (CLTC) and School of Information. Citizen Clinic has, since 2018, trained teams of students from diverse backgrounds to support the cyber-resiliency of non-profits at risk of politically motivated cyber attacks.
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Active Clinic
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The MIT Cybersecurity Clinic works with cities and towns, particularly in New England, to help them reduce their vulnerability to cyberattacks. Its approach is to work directly with public agencies or elected officials to assess their vulnerabilities and suggest low-cost improvements they can make. The clinic believes that having an assessment of the status-quo is the first step in figuring out a plan of action that will prevent unwanted incidents. Teams from the clinic typically work with public agency clients for two months to gather and analyze relevant information. There is no cost for these services.
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Active Clinic
Stillman College
Establishing strong cybersecurity frameworks and awareness programs is critical to an organization’s success regardless of size or industry. Stillman’s Cybersecurity DEI Clinic helps small businesses and non-profits mitigate vulnerabilities through training and awareness programs.
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Active Clinic
Rochester Institute of Technology
RIT’s ESL Global Cybersecurity Institute educates and trains cybersecurity professionals; develops new cybersecurity knowledge and technologies; and provides cybersecurity services for a wide range of partners. Its state-of-the-art Cyber Range simulates realistic cyber attack scenarios for training purposes and hosts collegiate cyber offense/defense competitions with global participation.
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Active Clinic
The University of Alabama
The University of Alabama cybersecurity clinic is a faculty-led, student-participatory organization that assists small to medium-sized organizations, especially non-profits, to defend themselves against cybersecurity attacks.
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Active Clinic
University of Texas at San Antonio
Initially envisioned and piloted in 2004, the UTSA/Center for Infrastructure Assurance and Security Cyber Clinic is helping communities develop viable and sustainable cybersecurity programs across all sectors of the community. The clinics brings students in the UTSA computer science department together with local organizations needing help with their cybersecurity efforts.
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