Texas Cybersecurity Clinic
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Description
A program through the University of Texas - Austin enables students to offer pro bono services to Texas-based community organizations, small businesses, and public sector agencies that cannot access such services on their own or which require augmentation of their cybersecurity teams. Services include: Asset Inventory, Access and Authorization Control, Network Security Configuration, Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR), Vulnerability Scanning, Security Policy Creation.
Services provided: Cyber risk assessment.
Request Services and Volunteer
- Criteria to Request Services:
- Must be a Texas-based nonprofit, small business, or public sector agency or organization.
- Strong client candidates are organizations with under 40 employees and little to no formal IT or cybersecurity support.
- Must commit 3-6 hours of manpower per week to liaising with the clinic during service semester.
- No prior cybersecurity experience required.
- Request Services:
- Send email of interest to Francesca.Lockhart@austin.utexas.edu.
- Criteria to Volunteer:
- Student:
- Must be a UT-Austin student.
- Enroll in two 3-hour credit courses.
- Possess proven teamwork skills, an interest in learning and applying the technical aspects of cybersecurity, and a commitment to improving cyber resilience in Texas.
- No prior cybersecurity experience required.
- Student Mentor:
- Must be a cybersecurity professional living and working in Texas and be willing to dedicate 1 hour per week to advise student teams during semester.
- Student:
- Apply to Volunteer:
- Send email of interest to Francesca.Lockhart@austin.utexas.edu.
DISCLAIMER
The cybersecurity volunteer program described on this fact sheet is operated by an independent third party and not by CISA or the federal government. CISA does not attest to the suitability or effectiveness of these volunteer programs for any particular use case. CISA does not endorse any third-party product or service. Any reference to specific third-party products, processes, or services by service mark, trademark, manufacturer, or otherwise, does not constitute or imply their endorsement, recommendation, or favoring by CISA.