Steve Trush 

Steve@Secure-Justice.org

Board of Directors

Steve Trush has been involved in securing people and technology for the last two decades in government, academia, and the non-profit world. Steve founded West County Labs in December 2020 during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic to design sustainable security programs for small under-resourced organizations. Before founding West County Labs, Steve was Deputy Director at the UC Berkeley Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity’s Citizen Clinic where he taught and designed defenses against cybersecurity threats to politically-targeted organizations and communities.

As a veteran of the United States’ military and federal agencies supporting international security initiatives, he learned how mass surveillance systems are abused and how beneficial digital innovation can also be exploited. Steve has a wide range of experiences from studying the risks of data collection networks in rural areas of India and Myanmar to performing technical evaluations of the City of Oakland’s information systems for potential violations of Sanctuary City policies. He has taught activists, journalists, and public defenders on safety from cyber attacks, online harassment, doxxing, and disinformation and has spoken at various conferences including RightsCon, NICE, and IFF.