UC Berkeley Cybersecurity Clinic

The UC Berkeley Cybersecurity Clinic is a trailblazing interdisciplinary, public-interest digital security clinic within the University of California, Berkeley’s Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity. Through a model similar to university clinics in law and medicine, we train teams of students to help social sector organizations build the capabilities they need to proactively defend themselves against malicious governments, powerful corporations, hate groups, and extremists. We’ve trained over 185 students since 2018, drawn from nearly two dozen academic specialties at UC Berkeley, and have served 25 non-profit clients on 4 continents ranging from women’s reproductive rights organizations to LGBTQ and international indigenous rights groups. Nearly half of the clinic alumni are women. We are proud to be a founding member of the Consortium of Cybersecurity Clinics, an international network of university-based cybersecurity clinicians, trainers, and advocates committed to sharing best practices, expanding the reach and visibility of cybersecurity clinics, and lowering the barriers for other institutions of higher education to successfully establish their own clinics.