COMMUNITY OUTREACH WITH A PURPOSE.

Aside from the initiatives listed below, CYBER DEFENSE CENTER is actively developing new community outreach programs. Here are a few that are planned for 2024 release. 

The CYBER DEFENSE CENTER has initiated a new podcast in 2024 to help fulfill our mission of community outreach. The FORCE POSTURE PODCAST will focus on cyber threats, challenges, and policies that are adversely affecting communities, critical infrastructure, and culture.  The host of the podcast, the Executive Director of CYBER DEFENSE CENTER,  will facilitate introspective and enlightening discussions on topics in this exciting field. Join the CYBER DEFENSE CENTER in this outreach initiative today. FORCE POSTURE PODCAST.

FORCE LABS is the community action arm of the CYBER DEFENSE CENTER and represents a partnership between local universities and the community. Force Labs was initially founded in 2023 to change the velocity of the Center's mission of a COMMUNITY OUTREACH organization that can scale nationwide. 

Force Labs is both a place and an idea. The first location is physically located in Castle Rock Colorado. The Lab is designed as a maker and collaboration space to turn community, cyber defense, and passion projects for lab sponsored beneficiaries into reality. This lab actively engages the community in the CYBER DEFENSE CENTER mission.

CYBER DEFENSE CENTER sponsored the drone and robotics hacking village at DEFCON (DRONEWARZ) for several years. This unique program engaged the community in the mission of CYBER DEFENSE CENTER through research into drone and robotics hacking and testing. Although no longer at DEFCON, DRONEWARZ is still a COMMUNITY OUTREACH program of CYBER DEFENSE CENTER and drone and robotics hacking and games reside at FORCE LABS.  The Games also engage the research community for additional research sponsorship. DRONEWARZ Research was sponsored by Whitefox Drone Defense, Fat Shark, R00tz, Ettus Research, Drone Pilot Ground School, EC-Council, Set Solutions, and Novetta Research (now part of Accenture). 

CYBER DEFENSE CENTER and  FORCE LABS has formed a new collegiate competition team and regional collaboration program called FORCE4. This team combines the skills of regional collegiate competitors with active and veteran service members to form a new type of team - a team where a force of one becomes a force of many... This a is a workforce development and COMMUNITY OUTREACH program to engage the ASCEND beneficiaries and community. 

CYBER DEFENSE CENTER hosts an annual conference, the CYBER DEFENSE SUMMIT - cyberdefensesummit.org - The CYBER DEFENSE CENTER first hosted the first CYBER DEFENSE SUMMIT in 2012 in Dallas Texas at the Great Wolf Lodge. This event was highly successful, completely free, and brought together over 1000 attendees with minimal planning. This COMMUNITY OUTREACH program focuses on bringing together the right associations and partners in Colorado to engage in discussions and education on cyber defense. 

CYBER DEFENSE CENTER is launching a new COMMUNITY OUTREACH program in 2024, breachreports.org - Breach Reports are essential when researching, monitoring, and cataloging threats to communities, critical infrastructure, and the country. This innovation project focuses on creating a new catalog of historical breach reports by aggregating data from several sources with new and innovative criteria for analytics.