DEF CON 33 - Cyber Volunteering&Community Defense 1 yr in - DC Franklin - S Powazek, J Braun, A Ogee
Source: YouTube · DEFCONConference · published Oct 10, 2025 · 45:33
Cyber volunteering addresses a critical market failure in cybersecurity by providing free services to vulnerable organizations that cannot afford commercial solutions. This session highlighted initiatives like Defcon Franklin and Cyber Peace Builders that are building community defense through volunteer efforts.
Key Takeaways:
• Rural communities and underserved populations are disproportionately impacted by cyberattacks, with 50%+ of US counties having basic security vulnerabilities
• Cyber volunteers provide hands-on services like risk assessments, training, and incident response - not just toolkits
• The Cyber Resilience Corps platform connects 51 volunteer groups across 29 states with 4,213 volunteers
• Defcon Franklin's water utility pilot successfully implemented security basics like inventory management and MFA
• Cyber Peace Builders engages corporate volunteers and has supported 620+ nonprofits through 2,000 missions
These collaborative efforts are building nationwide cyber resilience but need more volunteers to reach full scale.
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So, this is our uh first track of the day. Um, thanks for coming. Uh, the track uh we have four people. We have Sarah, Jake, Adrien, and John. Um, they're going to give a little chat about cyber volunteering and community defense. Um, and enjoy the show. >> There you go, guys. Hello. Good morning. How are you? Wonderful. Um, so I'm uh Jake Braraw. I run the Defcon Franklin project which we launched last year. Uh that does a couple different things which we'll talk about later. Uh but this year Jeff asked us to give an update of what's happened with Franklin and so on. And I know uh one of the first things that I noticed after I announced it last year was I had 10 different groups come up to me afterwards and said, "Hey, I'm doing a volunteer thing. I'm doing a a free training thing or what…