Our Member Organizations

Citizen Clinic is a multidisciplinary, public-interest digital security clinic within the University of California, Berkeley’s Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity and School of Information. Through a model similar to university clinics in law and medicine, we train teams of students to help civil society organizations build the capabilities they need to proactively defend themselves against malicious governments, powerful corporations, hate groups, and extremists. We grow our impact by sharing our institutional knowledge and serving as a model and collaborative resource for other universities that want to establish similar clinics.

Ann Cleaveland, Executive Director, Center for Long Term Cybersecurity (CLTC)
Lisa Ho, Academic Director, Master of Information and Cybersecurity (MICS), School of Information
Tiffany Rad, Instructor, Citizen Clinic
Andrew Reddie, Cybersecurity Adjunct Professor, School of Information

At the MIT Cybersecurity Clinic, we work with cities and towns, particularly in New England, to help them reduce their vulnerability to cyberattacks. Our approach is to work directly with public agencies or elected officials to assess their vulnerabilities and suggest low-cost improvements they can make. We believe 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.

Professor Larry Susskind, Director, MIT Cybersecurity Clinic

Through generous grants from the Hewlett Foundation and the Indiana Economic Development Corporation, 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. The Clinic is the first of its kind to strive to enhance the critical infrastructure security of under-resourced stakeholders across Indiana and the Midwest, focusing on local municipalities, counties, school corporations, and small businesses. The Clinic will leverage Indiana University’s strong tradition of cybersecurity leadership to provide a much-needed service to communities across the Hoosier state and beyond.

Scott Shackelford, Faculty Director and Founder
Rachel Dockery, Acting Executive Director

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.

Allen Johnston, Professor, Information Systems, Statistics and Management Science
Greg Bott, Assistant Professor, Information Systems, Statistics and Management Science
Matthew Hudnall, Associate Director of the Institute of Business Analytics

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 faculty and staff travel to counties around Georgia to provide community-based outreach and cybersecurity training to locally based, community organizations, including city/county governments, small and medium sized businesses and nonprofits. In January 2022, the CyberArch program established an experiential learning internship for graduate and undergraduate students beginning spring semester 2022. The CyberArch program will expand to include more student interns and reach more organizations across Georgia as we move into the future.

Mark Lupo, CyberArch Coordinator, UGA Carl Vinson Institute of Government

The Global Cyber Alliance (GCA) is an international nonprofit organization that focuses on making the Internet more secure for everyone: GCA’s vision is a secure, trustworthy Internet that enables social and economic progress for all. Unlike many nonprofits, we do this by building practical, measurable solutions and tools that are easy to use and working with partners to accelerate adoption around the world. Our success in delivering the solutions we build at global scale is dependent on the relationships we build with organizations that have access at the regional and local level to the end users.

Gill Thomas, Director of Engagement, Capacity & Resilience Program

At RIT’s ESL Global Cybersecurity Institute, we educate and train cybersecurity professionals; develop new cybersecurity knowledge and technologies; and provide cybersecurity services for a wide range of partners. At our state-of-the-art Cyber Range, we simulate realistic cyber attack scenarios for training purposes and host collegiate cyber offense/defense competitions with global participation. Our students, faculty and the professional staff help evaluate and audit critical systems/applications by providing services such as penetration testing, automated vulnerability analysis, product security audits to community partners as part of their coursework, apprenticeships and capstone projects. Our clients include municipalities, non-profits, schools, small and medium sized businesses as well as few local large corporations. These services help businesses and community organizations improve their cybersecurity awareness and defenses, while providing our students, faculty, and staff with continuous experience of solving real-world problems and opportunities to contextualize classroom lectures with contemporary practice from industry.

Ersin Uzun, Executive Director of ESL Global Cybersecurity Institute
Matthew Wright, Chair of Computing Security Department
Justin Pelletier, Director of the Cyber Range and Training Center

The R Street Institute is a nonprofit, nonpartisan public policy research organization (“think tank”). Our mission is to engage in policy research and outreach to promote free markets and limited, effective government. In addition to our D.C. headquarters, we have offices in Georgia, Texas, Ohio, Massachusetts and California.We work extensively on both state and national policy, focusing on issues that other groups tend to neglect. Our specialty is tackling issues that are complex, but do not necessarily grab major headlines. These are the areas where we think we can have a real impact. We believe free markets work better than the alternatives. At the same time, we recognize that the legislative process calls for practical responses to current problems. To that end, our motto is:“Free markets. Real solutions.”

Tatyana Bolton, Policy Director
Sofia Lesmes, Research Associate, Cybersecurity and Emerging Threats

Bina Nusantara University (BINUS) is committed to developing the nation and building a global community through education and technology. BINUS aims to enrich every academic community member through interdisciplinary approaches in teaching and learning, research and development, community service, and self-development for continuous learning. BINUS has a regular community service program introducing technology literacy, including cybersecurity, to the locally-based communities. BINUS lecturers and students travel to the country to provide cybersecurity training to community organizations, including city/county governments, small and medium-sized businesses, and nonprofits. BINUS has an integrated credit system to encourage students and lecturers to participate in the community service project.

Richard Win Putra, Information Systems Program, School of Information Systems
Yohannes Kurniawan, Information Systems Program, School of Information Systems
Yohan Mulyono, Cybersecurity Program, School of Computer Science

Establishing strong cybersecurity frameworks and awareness programs are critical to an organization’s success regardless of size or industry. To support inclusivity Stillman’s Cybersecurity DEI Clinic will help small businesses and non-profits mitigate vulnerabilities through training and awareness programs. Providing critical cybersecurity services not only helps secure organizations’ valuable data assets but provides students from diverse backgrounds experiential learning opportunities across multiple disciplines. Collaboration between the training center and academic department further supports the interdisciplinary approach.

Dr. Kevin Harris, Computational & Information Sciences, School of Business

Columbia SIPA's Capstone Workshops apply the practical skills and analytical knowledge learned at SIPA to a real-world issue. Students from the Masters of International Affairs and Masters of Public Administration degree programs are organized into small consulting teams (6-8 students per team) and assigned a substantive, policy-oriented project with an external client.

Jason Healey, Senior Research Scholar

UNLV Free Cyber Clinic was established to help small businesses mitigate the cybersecurity risks at no cost. It offers security auditing, security policy and business continuity plan development, security device or software configuration, and employee education, and cybersecurity recommendations. The service is performed at the customer site and a comprehensive assessment report is provided to the customers. The clinic recruits students with interdisciplinary backgrounds, trains them with both technical and non-technical skills, and sponsors industrial certifications. Qualified students after the training are allowed to offer the services to customers and can build up valuable hands-on experience over multiple years while helping the community. The clinic partners with the UNLV SBDC (Small Business Development Center) and a number of cybersecurity firms around the country, which offers career opportunities to students and advanced services to selected customers.

Professor Yoohwan Kim, Director, UNLV Free Cyber Clinic