# Internet infrastructure & cybersecurity firm announces free offering for nonprofits

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2022/12/14/internet-infrastructure-cybersecurity-firm-announces-free-offering-for-nonprofits/
- Published: 2022-12-14T08:05:49+00:00
- Author: Melanie May

**Internet infrastructure and cybersecurity company Cloudflare has announced a new,
free offering for nonprofits and at-risk groups.**

The [Cloudflare One](https://www.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-one/) suite of [Zero Trust](https://www.cloudflare.com/products/zero-trust/)
security tools add to its existing free services through its Galileo and Athenian
projects. They have previously typically only been available to large enterprises
and are currently used by over 10,000 customers.

[Zero Trust](https://zerotrustroadmap.org/) ensures all traffic in and out of a 
business is verified and authorised, and requires strict identity verification for
every person and device. According to Cloudflare while many large enterprises use
Zero Trust, smaller IT teams, limited budgets, and lack of resources have previously
made it more difficult for smaller organisations.

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To address this, [Cloudflare](http://www.cloudflare.com/) is extending the Zero 
Trust suite to the two Impact Initiatives, which support the security needs of public
interest groups. Project Galileo participants are artists, journalists, and humanitarian
organisations. Athenian Project participants are local and state election sites 
working to safeguard elections in the United States.

With Cloudflare One, these at-risk groups will be able to:

 * **Automatically protect organisations from phishing attacks:** Cloudflare Area
   1 Security blocks malicious emails before they get to inboxes, and, if a malicious
   link arrives through other channels and is clicked, its Browser Isolation and
   DNS filtering stops the query before it can load.
 * **Connect all employees, applications, partners, and volunteers:** Employees 
   can work in any location and still reach the tools they need, while administrators
   can control which partners and volunteers can reach specific applications and
   resources.
 * **Secure a path to the Internet:** Cloudflare One provides an encrypted, secured
   on-ramp to the Internet and stops sensitive data from leaving the organisation,
   blocking attempt to connect to a malicious destination, scanning downloads for
   malware, and blocking them before the user can open it. Administrators can also
   create policies that prevent the accidental or malicious loss of data and restrict
   uploads to approved destinations.

[Switchboard](https://switchboard.lgbt/) commented:

> “As a nonprofit that provides services to vulnerable and at-risk people, Switchboard’s
> infrastructure must be secure and trusted at all times. We have the same security
> challenges as any other modern organisation, but without Project Galileo, we would
> not be able to afford the robust solutions necessary to operate online and protect
> from increasingly sophisticated attacks. Cloudflare’s services give us confidence
> that our infrastructure is secure and allow us to focus our limited resources 
> on supporting our service users.”

UK Fundraising has used Cloudflare for some years to protect against denial-of-service
or other malicious acts. Only yesterday we received our latest update from them 
reporting 394 threats identified and prevented during November 2022.

![Screenshot from Cloudflare reporting 394 threats against fundraising.co.uk during
November 2022.](https://wfay6x.infiniteuploads.cloud/2022/12/cloudflare-threats-
ukfundraising.jpg)

Cloudflare has helped protect UK Fundraising for many years. Image: Cloudflare.

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