This recording is from a TICTeC gathering on the latest techniques to help civic and pro-democracy tech projects protect their services, data and users.

Across the world, websites and apps that promote democratic transparency and citizen participation are experiencing more sophisticated cyber attacks.

We hear some of the latest techniques to help civic and pro-democracy tech projects protect their services, data and users, covering specific internet freedom tools, how they’re being tested and integrated amongst pro-democracy actors globally, as well as the challenges of sustaining protection.

Speakers

• Patricia Musomba, The Engine Room. Patricia is passionate about empowering at-risk communities to enhance their digital resilience through capacity building and tailored support. Patricia talks about The Engine Room’s Cybersecurity Assessment Tool (CAT), which is designed to measure the maturity, resiliency, and strength of an organisation’s cybersecurity efforts.
• Hui Hui Ooi, Advisor, Technology & Democracy at the International Republican Institute (IRI). Hui Hui shares lessons from IRI’s internet freedom user testing programme and how they could be integrated into the civic tech community. She also emphasises the importance of internet freedom tool developers working hand in hand with users at risk to conduct tool testing to ensure tool adoption and improve trust.
• Jocelyn Woolbright, Program Manager at Cloudflare Impact, and part of Cloudflare’s Project Galileo team. Since 2014, Project Galileo has been providing free cybersecurity to more than 3,000 at-risk websites from around the world, protecting them against attacks such as DDoS, web exploits, phishing, and automated bot traffic. Jocelyn discusses the full range of support provided and explain exactly how civic tech organisations can get involved and apply for this critical protection.

Links

• The Engine Room’s Cyber CAT project
• CloudFlare’s Project Galileo
• TICTeC’s Democratic Transparency community of practice
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Transcript

0:04 Gemma Moulder Hello everybody. I’m Gemma. I’m mySociety’s Events and Engagement Manager. And thank you for joining us today for this TICTeC community gathering. And thank you to NED for supporting TICTeC this year.

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