MONTREAL - Facing the threat of cyberattacks and with limited budgets, non-profit organizations across Quebec are being offered free cybersecurity consulting sessions through a pilot project led by Polytechnique Montréal engineering school.

Many non-profits are often below the "cybersecurity poverty line," says Marc Gervais, executive director of IMC2, a cybersecurity institute involving Polytechnique and other Quebec universities that groups more than 50 professors and their research teams.

"They typically cannot even afford training or basic audits," he said.

In response, the institute decided to train students on how to identify weaknesses in digital security infrastructure by having them conduct free audits, supervised by their professors, on non-profits.

In Quebec alone, there are

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