
Cloudflare mitigated a 12-hour DDoS attack against Moldova's Central Election Commission, blocking over 898 million malicious requests that peaked at 324,333 requests per second. This defense kept critical election infrastructure online and accessible for citizens during a critical parliamentary vote.

June 2025 marks the 11th anniversary of Project Galileo, Cloudflare’s effort to protect vulnerable public interest organizations from cyber threats. To celebrate, we’re sharing a new Radar report, expanding in Asia with two new partners, and highlighting stories from organizations on the front lines.

At Cloudflare, we’re proud to collaborate with the CyberPeace Institute by powering its latest initiative, the CyberPeace Tracer, a platform that enables civil society organizations to proactively report cyber threats.

Along with CISA and the Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative, we are spotlighting threats to civil society, best practices for online protection, and new resources specifically for these vulnerable

In 2024, more than 80 national elections are slated to occur, directly impacting approximately 4.2 billion individuals. At Cloudflare, we’re ready to support a range of players in the election space

We want to ensure that all groups working to promote democracy around the world have the tools they need to stay secure online

For the ninth anniversary, we want to focus on access to affordable cyber security tools and what we have learned protecting the most vulnerable communities

Learn more on how Cloudflare works with civil society organizations to provide tools to track Internet shutdowns using Radar Alerts and API.

Learn how organizations under Project Galileo use Cloudflare Zero Trust to protect their organization from cyberattacks.

We are excited to share that we have grown our offering under the Athenian Project to include Cloudflare’s Area 1 email security suite to help state and local governments protect against a broad

We started Project Galileo in 2014 with the simple idea that organizations that work in vulnerable yet essential areas of human rights and democracy building should not be taken down because of cyber

Due to the growing trend of cyberattacks targeting election infrastructure, election security is not a US-specific issue. Today, we are extending our security tools to a range of election entities

Independent media and journalists are targeted both physically and online as a result of reporting critical events around the world. Learn how the Global Cyber Alliance and Project Galileo

As we protect many entities in the election space, we have the ability to identify, learn and analyze attack trends targeted at these sites that provide authoritative election information.

At Cloudflare, we believe that expanding access to tools that election officials and political candidates need to combat a range of online threats both serves our mission to help build a better Internet and strengthens our democracy.

Six years ago, Cloudflare started Project Galileo to provide free services to vulnerable nonprofits, journalism and independent media voices online who might otherwise be in danger of being silenced by cyberattacks.

Yellow roses were worn by supporters of women's right to vote during the Women's Suffrage Movement in the early 20th century in the United States. The yellow rose became the symbol of victory in the movement and this week, across all of our offices, we celebrate the achievements of women.