Noah Gruba, pictured, presented research on cybersecurity challenges facing organizations with limited resources at the 2026 ISCAP Conference in Asheville, North Carolina. Gruba is a Metro State University Cyber Clinic student and an AmeriCorps member serving through Lead For America.
The presentation grew out of a collaboration between Metro State cybersecurity faculty and AmeriCorps members. Through its partnership with Lead For America, the Cyber Clinic gives members opportunities to build cybersecurity skills while serving community organizations. The paper shows how that partnership can also give members a role in research and a platform to share their work with a wider audience.
Gruba co-authored the paper, Cybersecurity Weaknesses in Resource-Constrained Organizations: A Cross-Sector Analysis of Governance and Technical Safeguard Gaps, with Metro State cybersecurity faculty members Mousumi Munmun and Faisal Kaleem and fellow Lead For America AmeriCorps members Asia Osman and Desmond Mbelli.
The study compares gaps in how organizations across sectors manage cybersecurity and put technical safeguards into practice. It addresses a practical question at the heart of the Cyber Clinic’s service: When staff, time, and budgets are limited, which cybersecurity gaps should organizations address first?