Berkeley Cybersecurity Clinic Helps Nonprofits

Citizen Clinic, UC Berkeley’s cybersecurity clinic, a semester-long course offered in both fall and spring at the School of Information has been offering hands-on training and experience as they deliver pro bono digital security assistance to nonprofits and other public interest organizations. Last semester, a team of seven students assisted the Traverse Project, including by helping the organization’s volunteers remain anonymous to protect themselves and their families from sex traffickers, who in some cases are powerful and well-connected criminals.

“The farther we go up the chain of command in tracking a trafficking network, the more we’re likely to get to wealthy people or corrupt governments who have access to intelligence tools or products that they could use to start tracking my analysts. These folks are very powerful in a lot of countries, so it’s important for our volunteers to stay very anonymous.” - Austin Shamlin, founder of the Traverse Project.

To read more about how this eduational effort is helping nonprofits throughout the U.S. in the field of cybersecurity, you can read more at the Berkeley News website:

https://news.berkeley.edu/2024/02/07/cybersecurity-clinic-at-uc-berkeley-helps-nonprofits-protect-themselves-online