03/07/2024
In 2024, more than 80 national elections are slated to occur, directly impacting approximately 4.2 billion individuals. At Cloudflare, we’re ready to support a range of players in the election space by providing security, performance, and reliability tools to help facilitate the democratic process...
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11/20/2023
We want to ensure that all groups working to promote democracy around the world have the tools they need to stay secure online...
11/11/2022
For Athenian Project and Cloudflare for Campaigns participant websites, overall traffic volume ramped as Election Day approached...
11/09/2022
We at Cloudflare are proud to be able to play a role in helping safeguard the integrity of the electoral process. Through our Impact programs, we provide cyber security products to help protect access to authoritative voting information and the security of sensitive voter data...
11/03/2022
What happens to the Internet traffic of a country when an important election happens. In Brazil, the first round of the Presidential elections brought a 10% decrease in Internet traffic, but the runoff on Sunday had a bigger: 21% drop...
April 26, 2022 6:17 PM
We blogged previously about some trends concerning the first round of the 2022 French presidential election, held on April 10. Here we take a look at the run-off election this Sunday, April 24, that ended up re-electing Emmanuel Macron as President of France...
April 11, 2022 5:30 PM
What happens to the Internet trends in France when an election like the 2022 French presidential happens? Here are some answers....
February 09, 2021 2:00 PM
As we protect many entities in the election space, we have the ability to identify, learn and analyze attack trends targeted at these sites that provide authoritative election information....
October 21, 2020 1:00 PM
We thought it was important to provide a view into how overall traffic to campaign and elections sites is trending as well as a view into the cyberattacks we're observing. To that end, today we're sharing data from our internal monitoring systems publicly through Cloudflare Radar...
August 17, 2020 12:30 PM
At Cloudflare, we believe that expanding access to tools that election officials and political candidates need to combat a range of online threats both serves our mission to help build a better Internet and strengthens our democracy....
July 26, 2020 12:52 PM
With only 100 days until Election Day, Area 1 Security’s new “Phishing Election Administrators” report assesses the depth of current email security controls used by 10,000 U.S. state and local election administrators....
March 28, 2020 12:00 PM
With so many people at Cloudflare now working remotely, it's worth stepping back and looking at the systems we use to get work done and how we protect them. Over the years we've migrated from a traditional "put it behind the VPN!" company to a modern zero-trust architecture. ...
March 07, 2020 2:00 PM
Yellow roses were worn by supporters of women's right to vote during the Women's Suffrage Movement in the early 20th century in the United States. The yellow rose became the symbol of victory in the movement and this week, across all of our offices, we celebrate the achievements ...
January 15, 2020 12:30 PM
During the past year, we saw nearly 2 billion global citizens go to the polls to vote in democratic elections. There were major elections in more than 50 countries, including India, Nigeria, and the United Kingdom, as well as elections for the European Parliament. ...
May 20, 2019 8:00 AM
It’s election season in Europe, as European Parliament seats are contested across the European Union by national political parties. With approximately 400 million people eligible to vote, this is one of the biggest democratic exercises in the world. ...
