Jigsaw, Alphabet’s technology incubator, has announced that it’s expanding its DDoS-thwarting Project Shield to political organizations in Europe.
Jigsaw, the technology incubator launched originally as Google Ideas in 2019 and which is now running as an Alphabet subsidiary, has announced that it’s expanding its DDoS-thwarting Project Shield to political organizations in Europe.
By way of a brief recap, Google first lifted the lid on Project Shield back in 2013, and it initially tested the DDoS mitigation service with a clutch of hand-picked organizations. In early 2016, it opened to all news outlets and human rights organizations, while it expanded to U. S. political organizations last year.
Project Shield actually constitutes part of a broader Google-powered initiative operated by Jigsaw called Protect Your Election, which is basically a suite of tools aimed at helping political organizations defend themselves against all manner of digital attacks, including phishing and unauthorized account access.
