{"id":208314,"date":"2026-01-30T17:31:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T22:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/30\/utep-cybersecurity-clinic-completes-first-year-of-free-services-for-community\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T17:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T22:40:09","slug":"utep-cybersecurity-clinic-completes-first-year-of-free-services-for-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/30\/utep-cybersecurity-clinic-completes-first-year-of-free-services-for-community\/","title":{"rendered":"UTEP Cybersecurity Clinic Completes First Year of Free Services for Community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.utep.edu\/newsfeed\/2026\/January\/utep-cybersecurity-clinic-completes-first-year-of-free-services-for-community.html\">UTEP Cybersecurity Clinic Completes First Year of Free Services for Community<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.utep.edu\/newsfeed\/2026\/January\/utep-cybersecurity-clinic-completes-first-year-of-free-services-for-community.html\">https:\/\/www.utep.edu\/newsfeed\/2026\/January\/utep-cybersecurity-clinic-completes-first-year-of-free-services-for-community.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-01-30 17:31:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.utep.edu\">www.utep.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"sub-news\">Engineering student cohort now serving El Paso organizations<\/h2>\n<p>EL PASO, Texas (Jan. 30, 2026) \u2013 The University of Texas at El Paso\u2019s Miners Cybersecurity Clinic has reached a major milestone, completing the first year of students delivering free cybersecurity services to local El Paso organizations.\n<\/p>\n<p>John Wiebe, Ph.D. (left), UTEP provost and vice president for academic affairs, and Monika Akbar, Ph.D. (right), faculty lead and director of the Miners Cybersecurity Clinic, presented a framed photo of the clinic\u2019s inaugural cohort to Paige Godvin (center), a security consultant for Google, during a press conference on Jan. 30, 2026, on the UTEP campus to celebrate the completion of the clinic\u2019s first full operational cycle. The Miners Cybersecurity Clinic was established in 2024 through $1 million in funding from Google\u2019s Cybersecurity Clinics Fund.\n<\/p>\n<p>The completion of the clinic\u2019s first full operational cycle, with an inaugural cohort of nine College of Engineering students, represents a significant step toward the clinic\u2019s goal of training more than 100 students and assisting nearly 30 community organizations by 2030.<\/p>\n<p>Established in 2024 through $1 million in funding from Google\u2019s Cybersecurity Clinics Fund, the Miners Cybersecurity Clinic connects learning with hands-on practice to strengthen the readiness of local organizations for cybersecurity threats, including some that often lack the resources to address growing digital concerns. Through this first cycle, students completed specialized training and are now delivering cybersecurity risk assessments, policy reviews and actionable recommendations to participating local entities at no cost.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis milestone represents exactly what the Miners Cybersecurity Clinic was designed to do \u2013 prepare our students for real-world cybersecurity careers while directly serving our community,\u201d said Monika Akbar, Ph.D., faculty lead and director of the&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.utep.edu\/newsfeed\/2026\/January\/utep-cybersecurity-clinic-completes-first-year-of-free-services-for-community.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UTEP Cybersecurity Clinic Completes First Year of Free Services for Community https:\/\/www.utep.edu\/newsfeed\/2026\/January\/utep-cybersecurity-clinic-completes-first-year-of-free-services-for-community.html Publish Date: 2026-01-30&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":208315,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.utep.edu\/newsfeed\/2026\/January\/260130-C0Sci-Google_Announcement-jrh4-3.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[57],"class_list":["post-208314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208314"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208314"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208316,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208314\/revisions\/208316"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}