Our focus
Members work together as a community of vetted and deeply trusted peers, sharing practical cybersecurity defense information that can be put to immediate use.
We work to strengthen the cybersecurity profession in Northeast Ohio, enhancing the skills of current workers and encouraging students to pursue careers in the field.
We partner with efforts to improve community cybersecurity resilience and promote cybersecurity as a key component of Northeast Ohio’s economic growth strategy.
Our mission
NEOCC’s mission is to build an active, trusted network of public and private organizations across industries to enhance cybersecurity resilience and response, better protect digital and physical assets, create safer and stronger communities, and advance the technology leadership of Northeastern Ohio.
Our members
Our members include companies, non-profit organizations, educational institutions, law-enforcement agencies and civic partners, each of whom has a strong presence in Northeastern Ohio.
Our news
Cybersecurity: A top priority among companies, organizations
Crainscleveland.com – Cyberattacks occur all the time, in all kinds of ways, all over the world — from the WannaCry ransomware attack that spread across nonupdated networks and systems across the globe to a seemingly innocuous email from a company’s IT department disguised as a phishing scam.
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Regional consortium takes aim at hackers, cyber crime
Crainscleveland.com – What do cyber attacks and the heroin epidemic have in common? Both are nameless, faceless enemies, whose origins often extend well beyond Northeast Ohio and even our national borders. But, there’s a lesser known local connection.
Read more… Regional consortium takes aim at hackers, cyber crime
Corporations, research institutes teaming up to fight growing cybercrime threat
Cleveland.com – A group of some of Cleveland’s most prominent organizations is preparing to jointly fight back against the growing danger of hacking and other types of cyber attacks. The nascent group hopes to set up protocols for participating organizations to confidentially disclose to each other, or to law enforcement, when they are hacked.
Read more… Corporations, research institutes teaming up to fight growing cybercrime threat