Free security and performance for state and local election websites
Some participants include:
San Francisco
Rhode Island
Alabama
North Carolina
Hawaii
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.
Cloudflare is on a mission to help build a better Internet. As one of the world’s largest networks, we believe it is our duty to help protect the most vulnerable voices and most critical institutions on the Internet.
In September 2017, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security informed 21 states that their voter registration files or public election websites had been targeted for cyber attack. Among the many things state and local officials are responsible for in the election space are election websites. Just like every other Internet property, election websites need to be fast, they need to be reliable, and they need to be secure. Yet, scarce budgets too often prevent governments from getting the right resources to prevent attacks and stay online.
Athenian Project gives our Enterprise-level protection and performance for free.
Election websites serve a powerful role in democratic elections.
Election websites are often the targets of attacks and face vulnerabilities.
Athenian Project protects against these vulnerabilities.
Protect Voter Data and Election Integrity
Prevent attackers and nation-state actors from compromising the integrity of elections by stealing sensitive voter data.
Stay Online During Peak Times
Web traffic during election cycles can vary. Cloudflare keeps websites online and performant during peak times.
Prevent Website Defacement
Website defacement can be the result of brute force login attacks. Cloudflare stops attacks of this nature, preventing the proliferation of inaccurate information.
Helping keep elections safe and secure
As we look to the 2020 U.S. elections, we are reminded that having an Internet be secure and accessible for campaigns and citizens alike is critical to our democracy. At Cloudflare, we support the security of election system infrastructure by providing security, performance, and reliability to eligible state and local government websites, in addition to political campaign websites, for free.
Implementing security, reliability, and performance — seamlessly
Trevor and Rich, CIO and CTO respectively at the Colorado Secretary of State, have been implementing new technology for decades and are always looking for the best resources to protect the state's election website. The Athenian Project allows them to effortlessly protect their election infrastructure with security and performance tools strong enough to block large scale DDoS attacks or unexpected spikes in traffic.
"In this year’s historic Senate Special election, it was crucial that our website be able to handle spikes in traffic and remain online in the event of attack. It is very important to our state government and democracy as a whole that voters and the public be able to access registrar, election information, and election results. Cloudflare proved to be an excellent partner, helping us achieve this goal."
JIM PURCELL
Acting Secretary of Information Technology for the State of Alabama
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- The administration of elections — including the provision of information related to voting and polling places
- Voter data, including voter registration or verification, — or —
- The reporting of election results.