GRF Foundation

GRF Foundation is a non-profit for educational, scientific, and charitable purposes. It supports the mission of information sharing and analysis centers and organizations (ISACs and ISAOs), providing greater resiliency to organizations, and enabling proactive and effective response to growing threats. The Foundation works to:

Advance Cybersecurity Education

Develop materials, events, and presentations which educate both the public and private sector on information sharing, security, and topics which reduce risk and enhance security and resiliency.

Provide a scholarship and skills-building program to expand opportunities in professional security for members of underutilized, underrepresented, and marginalized communities.

Advance The Study of Cybersecurity

Facilitate surveys, studies and reports on:

  • Community control capabilities and implementation

  • Education and awareness programs

  • Security controls for communities and individual organizations

  • Security regulation

  • Security standards and best practices

  • Security tools, and technologies

  • Intelligence sources

  • Risk management

Advance Cybersecurity Frameworks/Testing

Design and test operational models improving the security and resiliency of underserved sectors such as kindergarten through twelfth grade education (K-12):

  • Develop and test sustainable, member-driven organizational models and tools for specific, underserved sectors

  • Identify operational impacts to member organizations

  • Analyze effective risk mitigation practices