MIT CYBERSECURITY CLINIC
The new MIT Cybersecurity Clinic (11.274 and 11.074) will be offered in both the fall and spring semester at MIT.
The Cybersecurity Clinic will consist of four-modules : Cybersecurity for Critical Urban Infrastructure: Understanding the Problem; How the MIT Cybersecurity Clinic Makes Initial Contact with potential Client Agencies; Onsite Assessment of Cybersecurity Vulnerability by MIT Clinic Staff; and Prepare and Submit a Final Cybersecurity Vulnerability Assessment to a Client Agency. MIT students who want to take on field assignments with the Cybersecurity Clinic (for academic credit) must pass the certification examination offered at the end of the fourth module.
Students who have achieved certification, will work in teams supervised by advanced doctoral and post-doctoral students during the last nine weeks of the spring semester to collaborate with an assigned client agency to prepare a Cyberattack Vulnerability Assessment for a client agency.
Learn more about the Cybersecurity Clinic and how to partner with us here.
WHO WE ARE
We are a team of MIT faculty, students, and researchers helping public agencies defend against cyberattacks through an approach called Defensive Social Engineering (DSE), led by Dr. Jungwoo Chun and Prof. Larry Susskind. Cyber defenders can usually defeat or protect themselves from attacks using DSE and other technical tools. The MIT Cybersecurity Clinic works with municipal or hospital IT staff and cybersecurity specialists in public agencies—especially those managing critical urban infrastructure—to quickly assess their vulnerabilities to attack.
RESOURCES
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ABOUT THIS BLOG
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