🎉HUGE thanks to @cltcberkeley.bsky.social and WI Dept. of Emergency Management for hosting Cyber Volunteering Day! DEF CON Franklin volunteers Jonathan Farley and Tim Pappa shared their perspective on how cyber volunteering organizations can successfully recruit, onboard, and retain volunteer corps.

1/ Volunteer Spotlight Series:
Our volunteer spotlight series kicks off with Christian Clark!

Christian is passionate about bringing hacker expertise to strengthen water system security. 🥤💻 #CyberCivilDefense #Take9

1/ 💧 At the #WaterPro25 Conference, DEF CON Franklin founder Jake Braun laid it out plainly: America’s 50,000 water systems keep families safe—but hackers, ransomware gangs, and even foreign adversaries are targeting them.

Bags packed. Mission clear.
Franklin is back at @defcon.bsky.social to defend the infrastructure we all rely on—starting with water.
Come find us.
#DEFCON33 #CybersecurityForAll #Water #CyberCivilDefense

T-2️⃣days out.

Franklin launched at #DEFCON last year. Now we’re scaling.

From matching volunteers to securing rural utilities—we’re showing what collective defense looks like.

📸credit:
USGS NWIS map of American water systems