Services protect campaign websites and internal
teams of small and large political campaigns and will be available
in the U.S. and globally
Cloudflare, Inc. (NYSE: NET), the security, performance, and
reliability company helping to build a better Internet, today
announced it will be offering free security services to help
political campaigns in the United States and around the world
defend against cyberattacks and election interference. The
Cloudflare for Campaigns program will allow any eligible campaign
to access a variety of the company’s security services including
enhanced firewall protection, denial-of-service (DDoS) attack
mitigation, as well as internal data management and security
controls. These services will be provided at no cost to eligible
U.S. campaigns, and for a fee to other campaigns in the U.S. and
globally.
Since 2014, Cloudflare has offered free security and reliability
services to nearly 1,000 vulnerable individuals and organizations
around the world including journalists, humanitarian groups, and
civil rights activists through Project Galileo. The Athenian
Project, launched in 2017, extends these benefits to more than 150
state and local election websites. Separate from these projects,
Cloudflare provided services to 16 of the 17 2016 U.S. Presidential
campaigns and has provided service to 18 of the 32 2020 U.S.
Presidential campaigns. The Cloudflare for Campaigns program will
ensure that the same type of security services that are available
to the largest campaigns are also available to smaller
campaigns.
“Given the increase and sophistication of foreign election
interference efforts, there is a clear need to help campaigns
improve the security of not only their websites and other
public-facing assets, but also their internal data security systems
and teams,” said Matthew Prince, co-founder and CEO of Cloudflare.
“This is our way of providing best practices and no-brainer
solutions to not only large campaigns, but also smaller, but
equally important campaigns that may have limited resources.”
Cloudflare will provide business-level services to candidates
for the duration of their campaigns and will include:
- Load balancing: Cloudflare Load Balancing runs at each of its
data centers across 200 cities worldwide and is powered by the
fastest authoritative DNS in the world. Cloudflare’s global Anycast
network is 15x bigger than the largest DDoS attack ever recorded
and ensures that traffic continues to get routed even under
stress.
- Rate limiting: Cloudflare Rate Limiting protects against
denial-of-service attacks, brute-force login attempts, and other
types of abusive behavior from suspicious visitors.
- Enhanced firewall protection: The Cloudflare Web Application
Firewall fights attacks in seconds without slowing down
websites.
- DDoS attack mitigation: Cloudflare’s network, which has a
capacity of 30Tbps, has mitigated attacks as big as 942Gbps. No
matter the size of attack, the Cloudflare network can handle
it.
- Cloudflare for Teams: This newly announced set of solutions,
Cloudflare Access and Cloudflare Gateway, can secure campaigns and
their employees and volunteers globally, without sacrificing
performance.
- Bot management: Cloudflare’s bot management harnesses threat
intelligence from protecting more than 20M Internet properties
across its network to detect and mitigate bots.
By providing free services such as rate-limiting, load
balancing, bot management, and web application firewall, political
campaigns can defend their campaign websites from attacks. With the
addition of Cloudflare for Teams, campaigns can protect their
employees and volunteers who have access to their internal networks
from malware and viruses, while also giving employees easy access
to internal applications no matter where they are in the world.
To provide these services for free to eligible U.S. campaigns,
Cloudflare is working with Defending Digital Campaigns (DDC), a
non-profit, non-partisan organization providing access to
cybersecurity products, services, and information regardless of
party affiliation. In May 2019, DDC received approval from the
Federal Elections Commission to provide free or discounted
cybersecurity services to federal candidate committees and national
party committees.
“Political campaigns, like any organization, need a
comprehensive approach to cybersecurity,” said Michael Kaiser,
President and CEO of Defending Digital Democracy. “Securing a
candidate's website, their critical public facing presence, and
hardening access to key internal applications can vastly improve
cybersecurity. Defending Digital Campaigns, with a mission to make
campaigns more cybersecure, is proud to partner with Cloudflare to
protect both external and internal technology assets across the
campaign ecosystem.”
Political campaigns that meet DDC requirements can receive these
sets of services for free. To receive these free services under
DDC, political campaigns must meet the following criteria:
- A House candidate’s committee that has at least $50,000 in
receipts for the current election cycle, and a Senate candidate’s
committee that has at least $100,000 in receipts for the current
election cycle;
- A House or Senate candidate’s committee for candidates who have
qualified for the general election ballot in their respective
elections; or
- Any presidential candidate’s committee whose candidate is
polling above five percent in national polls.
Candidates seeking free services should contact Defending
Digital Campaigns for additional information at
info@defendcampaigns.org. Interested parties can also reach out to
Cloudflare directly at campaign-security@cloudflare.com.
To learn more, please check out the resources below:
- Cloudflare for Campaigns Blog
- Cloudflare for Campaigns Landing Page
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About Cloudflare
Cloudflare, Inc. (www.cloudflare.com / @cloudflare) is on a
mission to help build a better Internet. Cloudflare’s platform
protects and accelerates any Internet application online without
adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code.
Internet properties powered by Cloudflare have all web traffic
routed through its intelligent global network, which gets smarter
with every request. As a result, they see significant improvement
in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks. Cloudflare
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