Projects - Cybersecurity

IDREAM (Incubator for Defenders Remaining in Exile to Advance Movements)

St. Paul, MN

A collaborative and global capacity development project designed to help address the unique needs of HRDs living in exile.

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Tufts Cybersecurity Clinic

Massachusetts

Our Cybersecurity Clinic offers a range of pro bono services to non-profit and under-resourced organizations, while preparing both undergraduate and graduate students to become industry leaders.

Tufts Cybersecurity Center for the Public Good

Massachusetts

Research, Education, and Civic Engagement

Cyber Resilience Corps

Berkeley, California, USA

A new platform for coordinating the nation’s cyber volunteer networks, allowing volunteer groups to scale their impact on community cybersecurity.

Cape

Washington, DC

Cape is the only mobile carrier built with privacy and security at its core.

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Government-backed attack alerts (Google Workspace)

As an administrator for your organization, you’ll receive an alert if a user is detected as a possible victim of a government-backed attack.

Google

eQualitie is a Canadian digital security organisation focused on the development and distribution of free, open-source software, services and security training to civil society, NGO's, investigative journalists and independent media to protect and promote human rights and press freedom online

Operation Shamrock

California

"A global coalition working to fight organized cybercrime in Southeast Asia" - New York Times

دليل الأمن الرقمي للنشطاء في الشرق الأوسط وشمال أفريقيا (Digital Security Guide for Activists in the Middle East and North Africa)

Middle East and North Africa

قامت أكساس ناو بإعداد دليل الأمن الرقمي بهدف تقديم الدعم للأشخاص في منطقة الشرق الأوسط وشمال أفريقيا الذين يسعون لحماية أنفسهم من التهديدات الرقمية والبقاء آمنين على الإنترنت. (Access Now has created this Digital Security Guide to support people in the MENA region who are looking to protect themselves from digital threats and stay safe online.)

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GCA Cybersecurity Toolkit for Journalists

United States of America (the)

Free and effective tools you can use right now to take action to improve the cybersecurity and integrity of your newsroom.

Global Cyber Alliance (GCA)

United States of America (the)

GCA builds communities to deploy tools, services, and programs that provide cybersecurity at global scale.

GCA Cybersecurity Toolkit for Elections

United States of America (the)

Free and effective tools you can use today to take immediate action to improve the cybersecurity and integrity of our elections.

Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity (CLTC)

Berkeley, California, USA

at University of California Berkeley

CyberVisuals

Berkeley, California, USA

Free images that visualize our most pressing cybersecurity challenges and how we can solve them together.

Public Interest Cybersecurity Contest

United States of America (the)

The Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity (CLTC) is accepting proposals from members of the public interest cybersecurity community who have ideas that will advance the cybersecurity capacity and resilience of small critical infrastructure at the community level.

Information Sharing and Analysis Centers (ISACs)

Europe

Information Sharing and Analysis Centers (ISACs) are non-profit organizations that provide a central resource for gathering information on cyber threats (in many cases to critical infrastructure) as well as allow two-way sharing of information between the private and the public sector about root causes, incidents and threats, as well as sharing experience, knowledge and analysis. In many EU Member States, ISAC or similar initiatives exist.

Cyber Policy Awards

Washington, DC

The Institute for Security and Technology (IST), in partnership with the Center for Cybersecurity Policy and Law, is pleased to announce the inaugural edition of The Cyber Policy Awards—an annual gathering of the U.S. cyber policy community to honor and celebrate those who drove significant progress in the preceding year, and to make resolutions for the new year.

Cloudflare Athenian Project

We created Athenian Project to ensure that state and local governments have the highest level of protection and reliability for free, so that their constituents have access to election information and voter registration.

Global Cyber Alliance Cybersecurity Toolkit for Mission-Based Organizations

United States of America (the)

This set of free tools, guidance, and training is designed to help organizations take key cybersecurity steps and be more secure.

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Snowflake

Bypass censorship by disguising web traffic. A feature in Tor Browser, Onion Browser, and Orbot.

Citizen Clinic

Berkeley, California, USA

Citizen Clinic is a public-interest cybersecurity clinic at UC Berkeley.

Consortium of Cybersecurity Clinics

United States of America (the)

We are training the next generation of cyber leaders and safeguarding community organizations.

Cybersecurity Campaign Playbook

The information assembled here is for any campaign in any party. It was designed to give you simple, actionable information that will make your campaign’s information more secure from adversaries trying to attack your organization—and our democracy.

Institute for Security and Technology

United States of America (the)

We design and advance solutions to the world's toughest emerging security threats

Digital Society of Africa

Digital Society of Africa (DSA) works to strengthen the resilience and ability of frontline activists; human rights defenders and other at-risk groups in the region to independently recognize and respond to digital threats and attacks.

Zebra Crossing

an easy-to-use digital safety checklist

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APAC Cybersecurity Fund

San Francisco

Google.org, Google’s philanthropic arm, is providing $15M to The Asia Foundation to launch the APAC Cybersecurity Fund in partnership with CyberPeace Institute and Global Cyber Alliance to bolster cyber capabilities of 300,000 underserved micro and small businesses, nonprofits, and social enterprises.

Cyber Secure The Hague

The Hague, Netherlands

A non-profit consortium will offer free cybersecurity support to almost 200 humanitarian NGOs in The Hague in the next 1.5 years.

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Underserved

Ireland (Éire)

The objective of the UnderServed Project is to develop a platform for reporting and analysing threats, intended for sectors that are vulnerable to cyberattacks yet lack the resources to mitigate them effectively.

CyberPeace Institute

Geneva, Switzerland

The CyberPeace Institute is a Geneva based organization protecting the most vulnerable in cyberspace

Open Briefing

Cornwall

We also provide consultancy and advisory to help nonprofits and foundations take the right risks when supporting and resourcing grassroots change. We enhance your organisation’s security risk management, information security and data protection, and staff care and wellbeing.

Dangerzone

You can install Dangerzone on your Mac, Windows, or Linux computer, and then use it to open a variety of types of documents: PDFs, Microsoft Office or LibreOffice documents, or images

Microsoft AccountGuard

Redmond, WA

Microsoft AccountGuard is a cybersecurity service that adds an extra layer of protection to the high-risk, highly-targeted organizations that underpin a healthy democracy, including those in the political, elections, journalism, thinktank, human rights and nonprofit sectors.

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Apple iOS Lockdown Mode

Lockdown Mode is an optional, extreme protection that’s designed for the very few individuals who, because of who they are or what they do, might be personally targeted by some of the most sophisticated digital threats. Most people are never targeted by attacks of this nature.

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Election Cyber Readiness Network

Arlington, VA

IFES’s Election Cyber Readiness Network (ECRN) is designed to bring together key technology partners, election commissions, and other stakeholders to form regional and national strategies to protect elections from digital threats and support long-term electoral integrity.

Africa Digital Rights Hub

Accra

Promoting research & capacity building on digital rights in Africa

Guia de Proteção para Defensoras e Defensores de Direitos Humanos

Brazil (Brasil)

A publicação visa colaborar na construção de estratégias de proteção, fomentando oficinas coletivas com defensoras e defensores de direitos humanos (DDHs), movimentos sociais e organizações da sociedade civil.

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Digital Safetea

Kampala, Uganda

An interactive game presenting scenarios to learn about existing and emerging digital safety issues

Cyber Defense Assistance Collaborative (CDAC)

Arlington, VA

The Cyber Defense Assistance Collaborative (CDAC) is a group of leading cybersecurity companies, former U.S. government officials, and top U.S. cyber defense leaders who came together to provide operational cyber defense assistance to Ukraine during the 2022 Russian invasion.