NSI CTC TEACH Cybersecurity + AI Clinic

About the Clinic

The TEACH Cybersecurity + AI Clinic gives students hands-on experience helping real-world organizations improve their cybersecurity posture and AI governance capacity. Students gain valuable training while providing pro bono services to under-resourced public, nonprofit, and small business clients in the Washington, DC area. Our work is guided by expert faculty and industry mentors.

Download the TEACH Cyber Clinic brochure here.

 

Curriculum

This is two-semester for credit program. In the fall 2025 semester, students earn 3 credits while learning in the classroom about key cyber concepts and tools, including:

• Significant policy, legal, and technical concepts related to cybersecurity, data governance, and data privacy.
• Common and emerging cyber threats facing government agencies and businesses, including threat vectors and threat actors.
• Cyber risk management, including identifying assets, impact, likelihood, as well as legal reasonings and organizational priorities behind selecting a framework.
• Security tools and techniques for threat detection.
• Incident response planning, including identifying incidents, escalation processes, and communication protocols.
• Ethical hacking, penetration testing processes, and the legal considerations surrounding them.
• Applications of artificial intelligence in cybersecurity, including threat detection, predictive analytics, and automation of security processes.

In the spring 2026 semester, students:

• Working in groups to provide supervised hands-on cybersecurity services on a day-to-day basis to a client organization, including assessing, prioritizing, and recommending how to mitigate risk to client organization.
• Producing a cyber risk assessment and recommendations that provide pragmatic, workable solutions that take into account the unique operational needs and mission of each client organization; recommendations will include, as appropriate, draft sample cyber policies and procedures, as well as examples of vendors.
• Communicating about cybersecurity risks, mitigation recommendations, and project status with client organization leaders, Clinic Faculty and Instructors on a regular basis, keeping all stakeholders apprised of progress and challenges throughout the semester.
• Identifying more broadly applicable lessons (beyond client organization) to strengthen cyber posture for the community of similarly situated organizations.

The Cyber and AI Clinic will count towards: the National Security Law and Policy Concentration and the Cyber Law Concentration in the JD curriculum, and the Cyber, Intelligence, and National Security LLM.

 

Student Support & Professional Development Opportunities

 

The Clinic provides $900 stipends each semester to all student participants – by alleviating financial burdens, the program seeks to broaden the participation of students from all backgrounds.

 

To strengthen their professional qualifications, the Clinic also provides students access to the Google Cybersecurity Professional Certificate and a CompTIA Security+ exam voucher for students interested in acquiring certification.

 

Applications for the Fall 2025 – Spring 2026 cohort are now closed.

 

Client Organizations: Work With Us

The TEACH Cybersecurity + AI Clinic partners with public, nonprofit, and small business organizations that face cyber threats but lack the resources to respond. Our trained student teams—guided by expert faculty and cyber practitioners—can help you strengthen your cyber defenses at no cost.

To discover how your organization can benefit from our Clinic’s services, click here.