Faced with the threat of cyberattacks and limited budgets, Quebec nonprofits are benefiting from free cybersecurity consultations thanks to a pilot project led by Polytechnique Montréal.

Many non-profit organizations often fall below the “cybersecurity poverty line,” explains Marc Gervais, executive director of IMC2, a cybersecurity institute that brings together more than 50 professors and their research teams, in collaboration with Polytechnique and other Quebec universities.

“They generally can’t even afford basic training or audits,” he says.

In response, the institute has decided to train students to identify digital security vulnerabilities by having them conduct free audits, supervised by their professors, at these organizations.

In Quebec alone, there are tens of thousands of N

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