DDoS protection for civil society groups

• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

Project Shield uses Google’s infrastructure to protect independent news sites from distributed denial of service attacks (DDoS), a type of digital attack that exploits thousands or even millions of computers to overwhelm a website’s servers and take it offline.

• Google

• The Tech
• Media
• Adjacent Fields

Digital Attack Map visualizes the most powerful DDoS attacks happening in the world right now

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Adjacent Fields

The Kit offers a set of self-diagnostic tools for human rights defenders, bloggers, activists and journalists facing attacks themselves, as well as providing guidelines for digital first responders to assist a person under threat.

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity