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🌐It was also great to meet up with folks from
@cltcberkeley.bsky.social, IST, @aspendigital.bsky.social, @cyberpeaceinst.bsky.social, and more in the #CyberResilienceCorps.

Together, we're building stronger, safer digital communities. 💪

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4/ Christian's experience includes penetration testing, securing cloud and industrial control environments, and supporting risk-management and vulnerability-assessment efforts.

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3/ Bio: Christian is President of DC256, the largest DEF CON group in Alabama. He is also Co-Ambassador of Huntsville Hack The Box, the only Hack The Box community meetup in the state focused on hands-on hacking and defense training.

2/ Christian shares why the DEF CON Franklin community means so much: "Being part of a community where water utility staff and hackers collaborate makes volunteering especially meaningful."

3/ That’s why we're mobilizing volunteers nationwide: to help small & rural utilities defend their systems for free.

Learn more at defconfranklin.com

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2/ Even the smallest towns in America are targets for adversaries. As founder Jake Braun says, "We talk to folks, and they're like wait, why would anybody want to hack us?... I think (with) all the news about water utilities being hacked, they're coming around pretty quick.”

7/ “Like Franklin’s fire brigades saved cities from burning, we can stop cyberattacks before they poison our water.” — Jake Braun
👉 Learn more / get involved: defconfranklin.com
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6/ Jake’s ask to water system operators at #WaterPro:
• Sign up with your water system
• Tell a neighboring utility
• Share your biggest cyber pain points
• Help spread the word so Congress & funders move now

5/ Franklin is already active in IN, OR, UT, VT with solid reviews - and we’re expanding to even more states and utilities with our new nationwide model for water cybersecurity:

4/ Think Ben Franklin’s first volunteer fire brigades, but for water cybersecurity: trained volunteers matched with utilities, focused on practical basics first (MFA, backups, passwords), then scaling up.

3/ Enter @projectfranklin.bsky.social
: a partnership between
NRWA, University of Chicago Harris Cyber Policy Initiative, and
@defcon.bsky.social
to boost cyber resilience at water utilities for free.