Cloudflare Recruits State And Local Governments For Free Election Site Security Program

Taylor Hatmaker, TechCrunch
Thu, 07/19/2018 - 9:56am

After launching a free program to protect election systems last December, Cloudflare has an update on how things are going. The program, known as the Athenian Project, provides Cloudflare’s services for free to state and local government websites that administer elections, host voter registration or verification data or report election results. Those services include the DDoS protection the company is best known for but also its Web Application Firewall service, IP reputation database and the ability to cut off web traffic from a particular country or IP address.

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