A Model for Building Local Cyber Clinics

Why the Cyber Ready Clinic?

In 2024, Cyber Ready Clinic launched as a nonprofit in Maryland to solve four key problems across many nonprofits, small-medium sized businesses, and municipalities:

1

Shortage in Cyber Workforce and Skills Talent

2

Lack of Cyber Awareness and Experience

3

Missing Defense Capabilities to Secure Data

4

High Cost to Implement Best-in-Class Solutions

What do we do?

We work with our customers to Assess Cyber Readiness, Practice Digital Wellness, and Apply New Solutions while building the workforce pipeline.

By providing low/no-cost consulting to local customers, organizations with little to no cybersecurity experience can quickly upskill and improve their cyber readiness. During our assessment and implementation process, we offer hands-on experience to local volunteers and interns to gain real cyber industry experience and earn digital badging.

David Brooks

“Federal power is impersonal, uniform, abstract and rule-oriented.

Local power is personalistic, relational, affectionate, irregular and based on a shared history of reciprocity and trust.”