Project Shield

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Project Shield
Founded2013; 13 years ago (2013)
Websiteprojectshield.withgoogle.com

Project Shield is a free service providing protection against distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. This service is offered by Jigsaw, a subsidiary of Google, to websites that have "media, elections, and human rights related content."[1] The main goal of the project is to serve "small, under-resourced news sites that are vulnerable to the web's growing epidemic of DDOS attacks", according to team lead George Conard.[2]

Google initially announced Project Shield at their Ideas Conference on October 21, 2013.[1] The service was initially only offered to trusted testers, but on February 25, 2016, Google opened up the service to any qualifying website a Google-owned reverse proxy that identifies and filters malicious traffic.[3] In May 2018, Jigsaw announced that it would start offering free protection from distributed denial of service attacks to US political campaigns, candidates, and political action committees.[4][5]

In January 2019, Google's Jigsaw expanded Project Shield to offer free DDoS protection to political organizations and websites in Europe, ahead of the 2019 European Parliament elections.[6]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Google launches new anti-DDoS service called 'Project Shield'". 21 October 2013. https://www.theverge.com/2013/10/21/4862724/google-launches-new-anti-ddos-service-called-project-shield. 
  2. ↑ "Google Wants to Save News Sites From Cyberattacks—For Free" (in en-US). WIRED. https://www.wired.com/2016/02/google-wants-save-news-sites-cyberattacks-free/. Retrieved 2016-03-12. 
  3. ↑ "Google's Project Shield helps any news site beat DDoS attacks". https://www.engadget.com/2016/02/24/google-project-shield-battling-ddos-attacks/. 
  4. ↑ "Alphabet's Project Shield expands DDoS protection to politics" (in en-US). Engadget. https://www.engadget.com/2018/05/16/alphabet-project-shield-ddos-protection-political-organizations/. 
  5. ↑ "Jigsaw's Project Shield Will Protect Campaigns From Online Attacks" (in en-US). WIRED. https://www.wired.com/story/jigsaw-protect-campaigns-from-online-attacks/. Retrieved 2018-08-13. 
  6. ↑ "Google's Jigsaw is giving European politicians free DDoS protection" (in en-US). 2019-01-29. https://www.engadget.com/2019-01-29-google-jigsaw-project-shield-europe-ddos-protection.html. 



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