Company
Date Published
Author
Jocelyn Woolbright, Ayush Kumar
Word count
932
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

At Cloudflare, they aim to protect political campaigns from cyber threats, which can interfere with the democratic process and weaken public confidence. They launched Cloudflare for Campaigns in 2020, offering a free package of cybersecurity tools to support smaller campaigns. Since then, they have helped over 250 campaigns across the US. To further enhance their protection, they are now introducing Email Security, which will prevent phishing, spoofing, and other email threats. This is crucial, as phishing attacks have been a major threat in recent years, with examples including the targeting of Democratic National Committee staff and Russian intelligence agents attempting to infiltrate Senator Claire McCaskill's re-election campaign. Cloudflare has already safeguarded the email inboxes of over 100 campaigns during the 2022 US midterm elections, blocking around 150,000 phishing attempts. The new Email Security feature is now available for free, providing AI-powered threat detection, email authentication, real-time monitoring, seamless integration, and insightful reporting to help campaigns operate securely.