Google offers DDoS defenses to human rights, elections websites

Grazed from ITWorld. Author: Jeremy Kirk.

Google is lending its vast infrastructure to websites that may be targeted by distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks because of their content. The program, called "Project Shield," is invite-only and accepting applications from websites dealing with news, human rights or election-related content.

Those accepted will benefit from Google’s DDoS defenses, which help repel barrages of traffic designed to cause websites to stop responding. DDoS attacks are an effective, low-cost way to disrupt companies and organizations. The attacks are difficult to counter even for well-resourced organizations that can afford separate security services specializing in DDoS mitigation…

Small independent sites are particularly at risk since a small flood of traffic can push them offline, Google said, but its infrastructure can handle the largest attacks. Google is also offering access to PageSpeed Service, which optimizes websites and hosts copies of sites on Google’s infrastructure for faster loading…

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