Two years in the making. But the real story isn’t the building, it’s that a 19-year-old can defend a Texas school district 400 miles away from this floor. That’s not a simulation. That’s Tuesday. 3,300+ entities protected. A real future for students, vigilance for Texas.

Every week, UT-RSOC's Scavenger automatically scans 3,300 Texas public entities for vulnerabilities. Every ISD. Every city. Every county. Every community college. Our students help entities remediate what's found. #UTRSOC #HookEm #Cybersecurity #Texas

You don't need a CS degree to defend Texas. CS. ECE. Informatics. Plan II. Econ. Math. Pre-Law. Cheer. Greek life. Soccer. All of the above. Applications close Sept 30. rsoc.utexas.edu #UTRSOC #HookEm #Cybersecurity #UTAustin

Welcome back, Longhorns. 🤘 First day of class, and UT-RSOC applications are officially open! Defend real Texas infrastructure. Build real skills. Do it as a student. rsoc.utexas.edu #HookEm #UTRSOC #UTAustin #CyberSecurity #NowHiring

Texas wrote cybersecurity protection into law with SB475. Here's who that protects: school districts, municipalities, water utilities, hospital districts, and state agencies. 3,300+ entities. One mission. #UTRSOC #SB475 #TexasCyber #CyberSecurity

UT-RSOC protects Texas. School districts. Water utilities. Municipalities. Hospital districts. State agencies. 3,300+ entities. One mission. Built at UT Austin. Something big is coming. 🤘 #UTRSOC #HookEm #CyberSecurity

Who is this little guy? Meet Dorkbot, UT Austin's free tool that automatically hunts web vulnerabilities across entire domains before attackers find them. 5,300+ institutions. 205 countries. 7 continents. Free. security.utexas.edu/dorkbot #UTRSOC #Dorkbot #CyberSecurity #AppSec

We see you clicking "Remind Me Later." We all know how this ends. #UTRSOC #CyberSecurity #MemeWednesday

That "verify you're human" page? It might be the attack. ClickFix malware tricks users into pasting malicious commands into their own terminal. 700+ education sites already hijacked. #ThreatTuesday #UTRSOC #CyberSec

Our graduates land in streaming media, semiconductors, and enterprise tech.Real SOC experience before graduation. That's the difference.Applications open late August. 🤘 #UTRSOC #CyberCareers #HookEm

While Texas sleeps, UT-RSOC students watch.Real analysts. Real threats. Real experience...before graduation.Applications for our next class of defenders open late August.Hook 'Em. Protect Texas. #UTRSOC #HookEm #Texas

70 days. October 1. UT-RSOC opens its new facility in Austin. Our students aren't waiting, they're already defending hundreds of Texas school districts, hospitals, cities, and counties. The work doesn't stop. Neither do we. #UTRSOC #Texas #Cybersecurity

In June, UT-RSOC stopped 371,111 email attacks, detected 1,710 compromised accounts, and identified 3,025 attack surface exposures, across 1,018 Texas public entities. One month. Real results. #UTRSOC #Cybersecurity #Texas

Before our students monitor live threats, they train on @HackTheBox. Real attack scenarios. Real skill-building. By the time they're in the SOC, they've already earned their seat. That's the UT-RSOC pipeline. #UTRSOC #Cybersecurity #HackTheBox

3,300+ Texas public entities are eligible for free cybersecurity support through UT-RSOC — school districts, municipalities, counties, and utilities. State-funded. Student-staffed. No cost. Is your organization covered? rsoc.utexas.edu #UTRSOC #Cybersecurity #Texas

20+ UT-RSOC students landed cybersecurity internships this summer. Google. Amazon. NASA. CrowdStrike. Blue Origin. Palo Alto Networks. Lockheed Martin. JPMorgan Chase. The list goes on. This is what the pipeline looks like. #UTRSOC #Cybersecurity

We run a live SOC at UT. Student analysts doing real cybersecurity work, supporting Texas organizations, building careers in security. That's UT-RSOC. #UTRSOC #Cybersecurity

our free Dorkbot service is now 6yo & serves over 2,400 EDUs, K-12s, munis+ across 204 countries - incl all US HBCUs/tribal colleges. Dorkbot has found ~190K high-risk webapp vulns during that time. please encourage your local ISDs, etc to subscribe: security.utexas.edu/dorkbot

Hate to break it to you, but that “free iPhone” you *won* online isn’t going to deliver. Your social security number will though! #phishing #cybersecuritytips

It’s not worth “forgetting” to update your devices. Don’t be like Steve, guys.