{"id":590,"date":"2021-11-04T18:07:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-04T18:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live-cltc-cybersecurity-clinics.pantheonsite.io\/?p=590"},"modified":"2025-06-06T14:11:15","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T14:11:15","slug":"university-based-cyber-clinics-raise-the-bar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cybersecurityclinics.org\/blog\/university-based-cyber-clinics-raise-the-bar\/","title":{"rendered":"University-based cyber clinics raise the bar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>University-based cyber clinics are an important part of the federal government&#8217;s push to diversify and bolster the federal cyber workforce. We were delighted to see clinical education highlighted yesterday in House testimony&nbsp;to the Committee on Homeland Security: Evolving the U.S. Approach to Cybersecurity: Raising the Bar Today to Meet the Threats of Tomorrow<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Check out the discussion between Representative Dina Titus, CISA Director Jen Easterly, and National Cyber Director Chris Inglis&#8217;s remarks&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vN6vpU51gqI&amp;t=6431s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&#8220;The clinic idea actually has many many beneficiaries. Of course, it benefits the local businesses, that are serviced by those clinics. Of course, it&#8217;s a component of the education&nbsp;of those&nbsp;students. But importantly, it bridges the gap between education and practice in ways that so many institutions have been challenged. When a student arrives with the degree or the certificate at the front door of a business that they want to work for, they often lack the experience necessary to prove that they can do the job at the very first moment. And so I think you&#8217;ve solved a number of challenges in one fell swoop, so I would commend that for others to follow.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We couldn&#8217;t agree more about the win-win that is a cybersecurity clinic: building cybersecurity defenses of civil society organizations and educating the next generation of cybersecurity professionals with real world, hands-on experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>University-based cyber clinics are an important part of the federal government&#8217;s push to diversify and bolster the federal cyber workforce. We were delighted to see clinical education highlighted yesterday in House testimony&nbsp;to the Committee on Homeland Security: Evolving the U.S. Approach to Cybersecurity: Raising the Bar Today to Meet the Threats of Tomorrow Check out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":713,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cybersecurityclinics.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cybersecurityclinics.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cybersecurityclinics.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cybersecurityclinics.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cybersecurityclinics.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=590"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cybersecurityclinics.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1392,"href":"https:\/\/cybersecurityclinics.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590\/revisions\/1392"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cybersecurityclinics.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cybersecurityclinics.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cybersecurityclinics.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cybersecurityclinics.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}