Roadmap to Community Cyber Defense with Sarah Powazek, Program Director, UC Berkeley CLTC [254]
Cybersecurity Defenders Podcast - Episode 254: Roadmap to Community Cyber Defense with Sarah Powazek, Program Director, UC Berkeley CLTC
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Sarah Powazek, Program Director of Public Interest Cybersecurity at UC Berkeley Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity, joins us to discuss the urgent need to protect under-resourced organizations from cyber threats. From hospitals and schools to nonprofits and municipal governments, these community organizations face sophisticated attacks without the budget or expertise to defend themselves.
In this episode, we explore the Roadmap to Community Cyber Defense with Sarah Powazek. Sarah shares insights on the co-responsibility model for cybersecurity, how cyber volunteering programs can create a safety net for vulnerable organizations, and why the future of cybersecurity must be local and accessible to all.
Key Topics Covered:
- The challenges facing under-resourced organizations: 75% of nonprofits collect SSNs but over half have zero full-time IT staff
- Why traditional cybersecurity approaches fail small organizations and the need for a co-responsibility model
- The role of cyber volunteering programs like Cybersecurity Clinics and state Civilian Cyber Corps initiatives
- Secure by design and secure by default: how tech companies can bake security into products
- Why cybersecurity literacy needs to become as fundamental as typing skills in education
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Guest Information
Sarah Powazek - Program Director of Public Interest Cybersecurity at UC Berkeley Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity
Sarah leads flagship research on defending low-resource organizations like nonprofits, municipalities, and schools from cyber attacks. She serves as Co-Chair of the Cyber Resilience Corps and is Senior Advisor for the Consortium of Cybersecurity Clinics, advocating for the expansion of clinical cyber education worldwide. Sarah hosts the Cyber Civil Defense Summit, an annual mission-based gathering of cyber defenders to protect the nation's most vulnerable public infrastructure.
Connect with Sarah:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/s-powazek/
UC Berkeley CLTC: https://cltc.berkeley.edu/
Cyber Volunteers: https://www.cybervolunteers.us/
Read the Roadmap: https://cltc.berkeley.edu/publication/roadmap-community-cyber-defense/
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