Civil Cyber Defense
Tiffany Rad and Austin Shamlin highlight pro-bono civil cyber defense, using OSINT and student clinics to protect human rights organizations and combat human trafficking.
Summary
Protecting Vulnerable Civil Society Organizations
Non-profit organizations, investigative journalists, and human rights defenders face targeted surveillance and harassment from well-resourced adversaries despite possessing minimal IT security budgets.
The UC Berkeley Citizen Clinic Model
Tiffany Rad presents case studies from academic public-interest clinics, demonstrating how student security researchers provide threat modeling, digital hygiene, and defensive hardening to high-risk groups.
Leveraging OSINT to Disrupt Human Trafficking
Austin Shamlin outlines open-source intelligence methodologies used to assist law enforcement in tracking human trafficking rings and identifying illicit operational infrastructure.
Scaling Volunteer and Community Defense
The speakers urge the hacker community to contribute technical expertise and open-source tooling to protect vulnerable non-profit organizations operating on the front lines.
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