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LEARN.
Cyber onAir curators aggregate and organize the best publicly available information.

All topical Hub content is under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial license which permits content sharing and adaptation by nonprofit organizations as long as proper attribution is given to its author(s) and is used for non-commercial purposes. Content and moderation guidelines reinforce our commitment to fact-based, comprehensive content and civil and honest discourse.  See Terms of Service for more information.

Simply visiting a Hub does not expose your identity publicly. When you submit your email address to become a Hub member, it is your option to have your address displayed.  All post curators are encouraged to use a free @onair.cc email address. Cyber onAir will not sell your information. See our Privacy Policy for more information.

DISCUSS.
As an onAir member, you can participate in forum discussions in posts on Hubs that have student onAir Curators moderating the discussions to keep them civil and positive. You can also discuss your concerns and ideas as part of a live zoom meeting with representatives and candidates.

ENGAGE.
Engage with Cyber onAir through curating posts, moderating forums, producing online interviews and discussions as well as donating to and sponsoring Cyber onAir.

Cybersecurity Overview

Cybersecurity is about protecting computer systems, networks, and electronic data from unauthorized access, damage, or theft. It involves a combination of technologies, processes, and practices to ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information and to guard against threats like cybercrime, cyber-attacks, and cyberterrorism. Key aspects include securing devices and networks, managing digital identities, and developing strategies to prevent and respond to breaches.

Core Concepts

• Protection:
  Safeguarding networks, devices (like laptops, smartphones, and servers), and data from harm.
• Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability:
•  The three pillars of information security. Cybersecurity aims to ensure that only authorized individuals can access data (confidentiality), that data is accurate and unaltered (integrity), and that systems and data are accessible when needed (availability).
• Threats:
  A wide range of malicious actors and activities, including criminal hackers, politically motivated attacks, and cyberterrorism.

Key practices

• Network and Endpoint Security:
  Protecting computer networks and individual devices like desktops, laptops, and mobile phones.

• Identity and Access Management:
  Safeguarding the digital identities of individuals, devices, and organizations, and controlling who can access what resources.

• Risk Assessment:
  Evaluating potential vulnerabilities and developing security policies and procedures to mitigate risk.

• Data Encryption:
  Scrambling data so it is unreadable without the proper key, protecting it from unauthorized access.

• Incident Response:
  Having a plan in place to manage and recover from a security breach.

Why it’s important

• User Education:
  Teaching people to protect themselves by using strong passwords, being wary of phishing scams, and keeping software updated.

• Business and Organizations:
  Protects critical assets, maintains customer trust, and secures a company’s reputation.
• Individuals:
  Helps protect personal information, financial details, and digital lives from theft and fraud.

Lead Supporting Organizations

onAir Networks, a 501c3 nonprofit, oversees the management of the public onAir hubs and networks. onAir Networks has an exclusive license to use the onAir software platform from onAir Tech, a Public Benefit Corporation.

onAir Tech corporation, in addition to the development of its Knowledge and Information Sharing System (KISS), also supports public and custom hub administrators. onAir Tech focuses on custom hubs that share many of their posts with one or more public onAir hubs.

Leaders

The Cyber onAir network of hubs is coordinated by Connor Wadlin and his team of aircasters led by Saanvi Munigela and curators led by Zeinab Shariff. Connor, Saanvi, and Zeinab oversee onAir members who can curate topical posts, add news items, moderate discussions in posts and in aircasts.

Supporting Cyber onAir

Individuals and organizations can support any Cyber hub in many ways including:

• Donating or providing grants to onAir Networks & specific hubs or networks;
• Sponsoring a post, category of posts, a newsletter, or entire Hub
• Purchasing a member post for an individual, group, organization,or project
• Volunteer to curate a public post and moderate its discussions, host videos and liverstreas, coordinate in person events, & participate in a hub advisory board

Select the Information icon in each hub’s site header to find out how to support a hub.

Web Links

• Top Cyber Hub

Videos

Short video overview of Cyber onAir top hub

April 8, 2026 (02:30)

onAir Platform

onAir is a dynamic, web-based platform for Knowledge & Information Sharing (KISS). The onAir platform supports the development of public and custom onAir Hub websites that display posts curated by onAir members. All onAir public hubs are overseen by our 501c3 nonprofit onAir Networks and the nonprofits and universities we work with on each hub.

• All onAir public Hubs are hosted on the “onair.cc” domain .
• OnAir  Hubs aggregate and promote the best, publicly available knowledge about a topic and its related news, events, resources, people, and organizations. OnAir Hubs also provide a variety of tools for Hub member engagement including forums in each post and aircasts (livestreamed zoom discussions).
• OnAir posts, by default, are under the CC-NC (Creative Commons-Non Commercial) license and can be shared with any other onAir Hub and automatically updated from the original post
• OnAir Networks provides its Hub organizers and managers with the support and guidance to make their Hub the go to place for their topic. OnAir Hubs can be customized by their administrators. OnAir also provides whatever design, development, and content support that is required.
• OnAir also develops and monitors the curation and moderation guidelines for the Hubs and manages the finances for each state hub. OnAir will share sponsor and other revenues with its hub administrative and curation partners.
• OAir hubs on any topic can be easily created, administered, and curated without any programming knowledge.
• OnAir Hubs have multiple ways of bringing together experts with each other, with students, and with the public to discuss best practices, new ideas, and innovative solutions. Every post has a forum that enables persistent, ongoing discussions on various topics as well as a place to ask questions and make suggestions, tell stories, and add endorsements.
• In addition, onAir supports professionally produced, livestreamed Zoom interviews, panels, town halls, and other discussion formats without requiring video expertise and displayable in posts and social media. OnAir also provides students with training on how to coordinate in person events

Data Ownership

OnAir was founded by people and for people, so we built the platform from the ground up to give users agency over how their data is stored.

Our entire platform utilizes cryptographically-secure protocols to minimize data leaks and allow users to only share what they feel comfortable with sharing.

We stand by keeping our communities safe from paywalls, abusive algorithms, and intrusive ads to ensure people are free to communicate within the bounds of our guidelines uninterrupted.

onAir Posts

The onAir POST is the key element of the onAir platform. Posts can have content about a topic, person, or organization.  Posts are stored and displayed within a public or custom HUB, aggregating the best content on a topic. Public hubs are overseen by the nonprofit onAir Networks and other nonprofits. To learn more about the onAir user experience, go to this post.

• Posts are organized in categories and sub-categories in a hub’s site header and can appear in multiple categories within a hub as well as shared with other hubs;
• Posts can have, in addition to having text and images, all types of media such as YouTube videos, Google Docs, PDFs, and Wikipedia entries;
• Posts can also have news items embedded within them such as videos, articles, livestreams, and press releases;
• Every post author can also have a comment section for Q&A, feedback, and forum discussion.
• Posts can be shared via social media and email.

Cyber onAir Network

Our first two networks were focused on Artificial Intelligence (top hub at ai.onair.cc) and Government and Politics (top hub at us.onair.cc) with 50 onAir state hubs. Our current focus is building out the Cyber onAir network of hubs.  The top Cyber hub is cyber.onair.cc. Sub-hubs can be found under the onAir logo. If you and your university and/or nonprofit would like to sponsor and/or coordinate a cyber hub, contact Connor Wadlin at connor.wadlin@onair.cc.

Content

Any web user, on a laptop, desktop computer or smartphone connected to the internet, can easily access content on any onAir Network hub for free.

All Hub content is under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial license which permits content sharing and adaptation by nonprofit organizations as long as proper attribution is given to its author(s) and is used for non-commercial purposes. Content and moderation guidelines reinforce our commitment to fact-based, comprehensive content and civil and honest discourse.

Guidelines

We are dedicated to maintaining respectful, engaging, and informative conversations. With the help of the Cyber hub’s lead university and lead association, the hub advisory board is working on establishing a cohesive set of moderation guidelines. These will protect members of our online community from harassment, abuse, and keep the conversations centered around exchanging knowledge, life experience, and collaboration.

Privacy Policy

Simply visiting an onAir Hub does not expose your identity publicly. When you submit your email addresses and name for any purpose, that data will only be used by onAir Networks. OnAir Networks will not sell your information. You also can, at any time, request that your information be removed from the onAir system. Such requests will be honored within one business day.

Hub Cooperation

The Cyber network of hubs are committed to cooperation with other organizations in the pursuit of providing the best online platform for discussing cybersecurity.

To this end, we collaborate with universities, nonprofit organizations, and anyone committed to advancing the field for everyone.

Currently, we are looking for a lead university as well as a lead association to support this network of hubs.

onAir Membership

Becoming an onAir member is simple and free.  All that is required is your first and last name, your email address and your zipcode. You can also identify the issues you would like a hub’s curators and authors to address. When you submit your email address to become an onAir member, it is your option to have your address displayed.

  Select the “Join” button in the site header of the hub you are interested in.

Becoming an onAir member will enable you to:

• Comment on posts in any onAir Hub;
• Curate and moderate public posts;
• Author and moderate news posts and have sponsors so can earn money from your contributions;
• Be able to follow posts and members and create your own My onAir user experience;
• Qualify to be an onAir Chapter member;
• Participate in aircasts (Aircasts are student-produced, livestreamed online discussions).
• Have your own Member post that you can copyright and also have sponsors so can earn money from your contributions.

onAir Curation

Curating a post and administering a hub is simple and intuitive requiring no programming experience. Any onAir member, with guidance from hub administrators, can curate public posts on a hub. In addition, onAir members can also start and curate new posts, moderate forums, and produce aircasts as long as they adhere to a hub’s curation guidelines. OnAir members can also start and curate, for a fee, a post on themselves (like LinkedIn), their organization, and projects. These posts will be clearly identified and be copyrighted by their owner.

If your university research center or department, association, or other nonprofits would like to help manage and curate an onAir hub, contact the network (see address in central network hub’s footer).

Benefits for nonprofit organizations

• Gain increased visibility and interaction with several audiences – both within and outside your organization
•  Recruit new people to your organization
• Attract new funding – from individuals, foundations, grants, corporate sponsors
• Establish ongoing communication with audiences – via onAir posts, aircasts, post forums, and in person events
• Can easily produce and monetize newsletters based on post content
• Connect with and influence federal, state, and local policy makers