MIT Scaling-up of PIT-UN grant-MIT Cybersecurity Clinic to create a national consortium of university-based cybersecurity clinics-Phase 3

PIT-UN’s most recent grant to MIT (to Professor Lawrence Susskind for continued teaching and development of both the MIT Cybersecurity Clinic and the Consortium of university-based Cybersecurity Clinics) was very timely, and greatly appreciated. [PITUN provided a previous grant that enabled the initial design and implementation of the MIT Cybersecurity Clinic.] $90,000 was provided. $15,000 was allocated to cover indirect costs at MIT (approximately 16%). $36,000 was allocated as a sub-grant to the University of California-Berkeley to help build and manage a Consortium of Cybersecurity Clinics (cybersecurityclinics.org) modeled on the MIT Cybersecurity Clinic and Berkeley’s parallel Clinic. The remaining funds ($49,000) were used to cover instructional costs for the 2022 Fall Cybersecurity Clinic at MIT: including a portion of one semester’s teaching salary for the primary instructor, Professor Lawrence Susskind, and partial support for two graduate teaching assistants (Mr. David Beron Echavarria and Mr. David Hong). We were able to involve three Guest Speakers in the Clinic without having to draw on the PIT-UN award. And, we were able to tap the valuable advice and assistance of Dr. Jungwoo Chun, who was the MIT-funded Teaching Assistant for the Clinic in several previous years (with PIT-UN support). He has joined the MIT faculty as a Lecturer and will be co-teaching with Professor Susskind in 2024. As promised, we have used the latest PIT-UN grant to help train undergraduates and graduate students at MIT who are moving into new positions in the cybersecurity “world,” added cybersecurity to the MIT curriculum (sparking similar efforts in many other places), produced and disseminated new cybersecurity teaching materials for and provided direct assistance to cities, towns, and hospitals that have improved their cybersecurity capacities and taken steps to protect themselves from cyberattack.