Consortium FAQs

A cybersecurity clinic provides cybersecurity services to community organizations, including small businesses, nonprofits, cities and towns, rural school districts, small utilities and more, while giving students real-world cybersecurity experience. Modeled after legal and medical school clinics, cybersecurity clinics are typically housed at colleges and universities under the direction of clinical professors. Students from diverse backgrounds and degree paths train to provide free cybersecurity assistance to clients who could not otherwise afford these services. Clinics serve as a skills-based learning environment for students and as a vital local resource for improving the cybersecurity resilience of communities.

Each clinic specializes in different areas with different focuses. Visit our About page to learn more.

Each Consortium Clinic operates independently and focuses on unique audience and service specialties. Services could include vulnerability and risk assessments, cybersecurity policy templates, incident response plans, penetration testing, ransomware training, NIST and CMMC certifications, and more!

Clinics have faculty directors with student workers. Each student is specially trained to provide top-of-the-line service and assessment.

As technology grows more important, so do does protecting our data and devices from attackers. Data breaches and malware can be fatal to a business’s success.

We are looking to expand our members! We believe that universities have a social responsibility to improve society, and transfer information out to their communities. Cybersecurity has an impact on everyone’s lives, perhaps more directly than other technical disciplines, and that teaching cybersecurity without doing it is a mistake, hands-on experience to connect textbook learning to on-the-job experience with real-world problems is the best way to prepare professionals and gives students a chance to work for and with the community. If interested, please reach out to us and visit our Resources page.