The Atlantic Council interviewed students from the Strauss Center’s Texas Cybersecurity Clinic to provide insight into participating in the 2025 DC Cyber 9/12 Strategy Challenge. On March 13 – 14, 2025, the Atlantic Council’s Cyber Statecraft Initiative hosted its flagship Cyber 9/12 Strategy Challenge in Washington, D.C. Cyber 9/12 is a dynamic, scenario-based cybersecurity competition that challenges student teams to serve as cyber experts to a panel of judges and respond to a fictional, evolving scenario of geopolitical importance. Chat APT, a Texas Cybersecurity Clinic student team from The University of Texas at Austin discussed how upcoming issues in cybersecurity shaped their approach to the competition, and how this year’s scenario changed their thinking and exposed them to new challenges.
The Strauss Center for International Security and Law hosts the Austin Regional Cyber 9/12 Strategy Challenge each Spring, and the winning team is automatically accepted into the DC Cyber 9/12 Strategy Challenge.
The Strauss Center for International Security and Law co-hosted a roundtable with ON2IT Cybersecurity and the Center for Cybersecurity Policy and Law focused on cybersecurity resilience in Texas, and featuring leaders of the Texas Cyber Command as well as state legislators dedicated to improving the cybersecurity and national security posture of the state. Participants explored expanding shared services to smaller...
Deborah Chu, former Cyber Clinic student with the Strauss Center for International Security and Law's Texas Cybersecurity Clinic, was recently featured inWall Street Journal Opinion piece "How to Serve Your Country if You Aren't in the Military." The article sought out student views on public service beyond the military. In the face of coordinated and state-backed cyberattacks on U.S. infrastructure,...
Francesca Lockhart, Program Lead of the Strauss Center for International Security and Law's Texas Cybersecurity Clinic, was recently interviewed by podcast hosts and UT Austin faculty Professor Stephanie Holmsten and Professor Jen Moon in an episode of "The Other Side of Campus" on "Classroom to Cyberspace: Teaching Public Service Through Cybersecurity." The conversation focused on Professor Lockhart's background with the...