{"id":145195,"date":"2026-01-31T07:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T07:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/145195\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T07:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T07:26:09","slug":"google-funded-utep-miner-cybersecurity-clinic-launches-free-services-for-local-groups-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/145195\/","title":{"rendered":"Google-funded UTEP Miner Cybersecurity Clinic launches free services for local groups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 The University of Texas at El Paso announced a significant milestone for its Miner Cybersecurity Clinic, funded by Google. <\/p>\n<p>The clinic&#8217;s inaugural cohort of nine students has completed specialized cybersecurity training and is now offering free cybersecurity services to local organizations. <\/p>\n<p>Monika Akbar, Ph.D., the faculty lead and director of the Miners Cybersecurity Clinic, emphasized the growing importance of cybersecurity. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Cyber security is growing as a major area of concern and with all the digitization we are seeing it is very important to keep our system data and process secure from bridges,&#8221; she said. Akbar added, &#8220;So we are training the students and connecting them with local community and serving the need of the community.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>The clinic aims to train over 100 students and assist 30 local organizations by 2030.<\/p>\n<p>RECOMMENDED: <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs4local.com\/news\/local\/las-cruces-police-seek-help-identifying-burglary-suspect-offering-a-reward?src=link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Las Cruces police seek help identifying burglary suspect, offering a reward<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cbs4local.com\/sign-up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sign up<\/a> to receive the top interesting stories from in and around our community once daily in your inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 The University of Texas at El Paso announced a significant milestone for its&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144799,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":{"0":"post-145195","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-el-paso","8":"tag-el-paso","9":"tag-el-paso-headlines","10":"tag-el-paso-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}