14 DAY TRIAL // Google is showing its support for smaller news organizations, human rights, and/or elections monitoring services by providing free DDoS protection to all who apply to its Project Shield initiative.
A few years back, Google set up Project Shield as an experiment to see if it could deploy its vast security infrastructure to fend off DDoS attacks.
For the program's pilot stage, Google asked several smaller news websites to join. Google valued their critical investigative work against oppressive regimes and corrupt politicians and wanted to see if it could protect them from the constant barrage of cyber-attacks and DDoS assaults they were facing on a daily basis.
Today, Google has announced that this program is no longer an experiment and has now opened its doors for a particular category of sites.
This list includes political-centered news portals, elections monitoring websites, and the websites of human rights organizations. The webmasters of these services and organizations are invited to fill out a form on Google's Project Shield website.
Project Shield is part of Google's Jigsaw initiative. Jigsaw was until recently known as Google Ideas, a cross-sector, interdisciplinary think tank created by Google to tackle various political and economic issues.
Jigsaw is one of the smaller companies that broke from Google and is now under the direct supervision of Alphabet Inc., Google's new parent company.
