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.

• Awards and prizes
• Cybersecurity

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.

• Organize campaigns
• Cybersecurity

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

• local

• Digital security and privacy
• Pro bono and volunteer
• Cybersecurity

The CyberPeace Institute is a Geneva based organization protecting the most vulnerable in cyberspace. Independent and neutral, the Institute investigates and analyzes the human impact of systemic cyber threats, delivers free cybersecurity assistance, tracks the enforcement of international laws and norms and forecasts threats to Cyberpeace.

• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

With a mission to combat online abuses, particularly image-based sexual abuse, while advocating for legislative reform and providing support to victims.

• anti-harassment
• Gender Equality

• Digital security and privacy

The Cyberharassment Clinic is a program at a law school that allows students to represent victims of online harassment, cyberbullying, and revenge porn.

• Gender Equality
• anti-harassment

• Courses
• Pro bono and volunteer
• Help out

A program offered by K&L Gates for victims of nonconsensual photography based in the US and beyond

• anti-harassment
• Gender Equality

• Digital security and privacy
• Pro bono and volunteer
• Help out

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.

• Ukraine

• Cybersecurity
• Public Private Partnerships

A guide for civil society organizations looking to get started on a cybersecurity plan

• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

We empower people to think critically about their relationship with technology and inspire a more socially responsible future.

• workshops

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy

This project is an experiment in experiential learning through a cyber verification lab at the University of Hong Kong’s Journalism and Media Studies Centre.

• Media
• Fight disinformation

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

• guides

• Foundational layers
• Cybersecurity

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

• Partner networks
• Pro bono and volunteer
• Cybersecurity

The “AI Cyber Challenge” (AIxCC) will challenge competitors across the United States, to identify and fix software vulnerabilities using AI.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Challenges
• Open source supply chain

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.

• Get funding
• Digital security and privacy
• Funders & donors

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.

• Voting and elections
• Cybersecurity
• Election administration

Biden-Harris Administration Announces Cybersecurity Labeling Program for Smart Devices to Protect American Consumers

• Hardware
• Trustmarks
• Regulation

USAID report

• Voting and elections
• Cybersecurity
• Election administration

Association féministe intersectionnelle à l'origine de #TwitterAgainstWomen, notre objectif est de sensibiliser et d'informer sur les cyberviolences, les droits des victimes et les recours possibles.

• Gender Equality
• LGBTQI
• harassment

• Solidarity networks
• Campaign organizations
• Hotlines

The Paris Call for Trust and Security in Cyberspace of 12 November 2018 is a call to come together to face the new threats endangering citizens and infrastructure.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Manifestos

Cybersecurity for Democracy is a research-based effort to expose online threats to our social fabric – and recommend how to counter them. We are part of the Center for Cybersecurity at NYU.

• Digital security and privacy
• Research and policy centers
• Advertising

Carnegie Melon's center for disinformation, hate speech and extremism online

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Learn about civic tech

Report by the International Committee of the Red Cross

• cyberwar
• reports

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech Tools

• The People
• Help out
• Pro bono and volunteer

The CYRILLA Collaborative is a global initiative that seeks to map and analyze the impacts of legal frameworks in digital environments by aggregating, organizing, and visualizing distributed legal data through open research methodologies, data models, taxonomies, and databases.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Govtech

The Transformative Cyber Innovation Lab (TCIL or Lab) will find and nurture technologically feasible, testable pilot projects which begin to solve some of the hardest cyber problems afflicting the national security industrial base and our country.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy

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.

• Voting and elections
• Cybersecurity
• Civic features

The African League of Cyber-Activists and Bloggers for Democracy, commonly known as AfricTivistes, is the union of bloggers and web-activists from the continent and its diaspora to promote and defend democratic values, human rights and good governance through digital means.

• Peer networks

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

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

Art exhibition at MIT: critical explorations of ai and cities

• cities

• Artificial Intelligence
• Media
• Artistic interventions

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

• Pro bono and volunteer
• Cybersecurity
• Academia

The program pays topic experts to create relevant content on social media for NGI

• Creators and Influencers
• Public Relations and amplification

Its goal is to promote research and disseminate best practice in the ethical application of artificial intelligence in cities.

• cities

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Research and policy centers

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

• Govtech
• Cybersecurity
• Supporting public sector from outside government

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.

• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

an easy-to-use digital safety checklist

• guides

• Digital security and privacy
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Cybersecurity

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.

• Cybersecurity
• Threat reporting

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.

• Digital security and privacy
• Help out
• Cybersecurity

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. Even if the original document is dangerous and would normally hack your computer, Dangerzone will convert it into a safe PDF that you can open and read.

• Media
• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

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.

• Microsoft

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

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.

• Apple

• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

Digital Rights Nepal is a not-for-profit initiative dedicated to the protection and promotion of digital rights in Nepal. It focuses on digital rights issues such as right to online freedom of expression and association, online privacy, access to information, internet governance, cyber laws/policies and cyber securities.

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital rights

A comprehensive set of resources to help new techies in government hit the ground running on day one.

• Govtech
• Digital literacy
• Supporting public sector from outside government

Promoting research & capacity building on digital rights in Africa

• Research and policy centers
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Digital rights

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.

• reports

• Digital security and privacy
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Cybersecurity

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

• Media
• Digital security and privacy
• Games and gamification

Consumer Reports's add-on to the White House's "cyber trust mark" for consumer connected devices

• Digital security and privacy
• Hardware
• Trustmarks

This [Canadian] report includes the following: Importance of ethics in AI and government, Understanding the impacts of AI on society, Balancing AI-driven efficiency with privacy and security concerns, and Cyber-security and digital trust.

• reports

• Artificial Intelligence
• Govtech
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

The municipality has been organising the Hâck The Hague hacking competition since 2017. During Hâck The Hague ethical hackers try to penetrate the municipality's computer systems. This is how they test the digital security of The Hague.

• Cybersecurity
• Supporting public sector from outside government