DePaul Cybersecurity Clinic (CDM-023)
Summary 🟡 ✓
- Owner Unit: Jarvis College of Computing and Digital Media
- Sub-unit: School of Computing (interdisciplinary with Driehaus College of Business and College of Law)
- Content Type: clinic
- Campus/Location: Loop
- Last Verified: June 14, 2026
Description & capabilities
The DePaul Cybersecurity Clinic is a student-staffed, interdisciplinary service clinic that delivers free cybersecurity assistance — risk assessments, internal audits, and security-policy reviews — to community-based nonprofits and small organizations in Chicago. Founded and directed by Janine Spears, the clinic builds on the CSC 390 cybersecurity course and pairs cybersecurity students with business and law students to deliver real-world client engagements. It was established with a DePaul Academic Growth and Innovation Fund (AGIF) award and operates alongside the School of Computing CyberLabs (CDM-004).
Access status
- Level: yellow (
Negotiated Access) - Rationale: Clinic engagements are scoped through the clinic intake process; participation is open to students with cybersecurity coursework, not open-campus access.
- Access URL: cyberclinic.depaul.edu
- Contact name: Janine Spears
- Contact email: cyberclinic@depaul.edu
- Verification date: 2026-06-14
- Source URLs:
- cyberclinic.depaul.edu
Verification
- Status: confirmed (
✓) - Confidence: 92/100
- Rationale: Dedicated official DePaul clinic website plus DePaul Newsroom coverage and the BS-in-Cybersecurity program page corroborate the clinic's existence, leadership, and mission.
- Last verified: 2026-06-14
- Evidence:
- Official site cyberclinic.depaul.edu (Janine Spears, Clinic Founder and Director)
- DePaul Newsroom www.depaul.edu/news/agif-cybersecurity-gaming-grant-2024
- Program page www.depaul.edu/academics/programs/bs-in-cybersecurity
- Collaboratory activity D36EYO741 — AGIF funder, Steans Center sourcing, interdisciplinary partners
Equipment
No standalone public equipment inventory; clinic is a service program.
Last verified: May 28, 2026.
Contacts (resource-level)
- Website: DePaul Cybersecurity Clinic
- Email: Cybersecurity Clinic
People & contacts
Named contacts from the people registry when publicly documented.
- Janine Spears (Faculty lead) — jspears2@depaul.edu · Profile
Source URL
Official links and email are listed under Contacts above.
Documented Relationships
Interdisciplinary clinic spanning the School of Computing, Driehaus College of Business, and College of Law, with nonprofit clients sourced through the Steans Center (UNI-004). Operates alongside CyberLabs (CDM-004). Funded by AGIF grant GRA-920. Collaboratory records document campus partners (School of Computing Cybersecurity program) and community partner profile linking Steans Center client pipeline.
Linked Relationship IDs
Notes
Director Janine Spears (PER-008). Faculty collaborators (from DePaul Newsroom): Filipo Sharevski and Ryan Haley (School of Computing); David Wang and Mark Shore (Driehaus College of Business); Max Helveston (College of Law). Promoted from candidate RC-005 on 2026-06-14 via institutional web evidence (packet 2026-06-14-hard-tech-candidate-web-discovery).