Cybersecurity hotlines at colleges could go a long way toward filling the skills gap

Welcome to this week’s edition of the Threat Source newsletter.

I recently stumbled upon news that the University of Texas at Austin is launching a new cybersecurity clinic run by faculty and students studying security and IT at the university. This clinic offers pro-bono cybersecurity services — like incident response, general advice and ransomware defense — to community organizations, non-profits and small businesses that normally couldn’t afford to pay a private company for these same services.

That news led me …

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