Cybersecurity
Preventing hacks, cyberattacks, leaks, and otherwise protecting civic tech projects and data
Tor Browser for Android
Tor Browser for Android Experience real private browsing without tracking, surveillance, or censorship.
Orfox
A privacy-focused web browser for use with Orbot, based on Tor Browser
Defending Digital Campaigns
Defending Digital Campaigns makes our political process more secure by providing political parties and campaigns with knowledge, products and services to defend themselves from cyber threats and att...
Deflect
DDoS protection for civil society groups
Digital Safety Kit
A short guide to help keep journalists and their sources safe
1Password for democracy
Free 1Password accounts for people working on behalf of democracy
Project Shield
Project Shield uses Google’s infrastructure to protect independent news sites from distributed denial of service attacks (DDoS), a type of digital attack that exploits thousands or even millions of co...
Guardian Project
Guardian Project creates easy to use secure apps, open-source software libraries, and customized mobile devices that can be used around the world by any person looking to protect their communications...
Red Team Lab at Open Tech Fund
The lab focuses on improving the software security of projects that advance OTF’s Internet freedom goals by ensuring that code, data, and people behind the tools have what they need to create a safer...
Rarenet
Rarenet runs joint activities that aim to improve coordinated response, education and advocacy in cyber security threats affecting civil society and activism online.
CV Dazzle
Camouflage from face detection
Level-up
Resources for the global digital safety training community.
Mailfence
Secure and private email service with collaboration suite.
Secure Messaging? More Like A Secure Mess.
EFF Guide to Messaging
OpenTrustwire
Trustwire gives you strong end-to-end encryption while keeping it simple to use. Trustwire is web-based, so users don't need to download or install apps, and they can manage or exchange files whether...
Center for Digital Resilience
Building resilient systems to keep civil society safe online
Project Defenders Sustainable Emergency Grants
Any NGO, human rights or media organisation that faces threats due to the work they are doing, can apply for this grant.
Secure Usability and Accessibility Lab at Open Tech Fund
OTF’s Secure Usability and Accessibility Lab offers secure usability and user-interface assistance to Internet freedom and digital security tools to help them recognise and solve usability challenges...
Colnodo
Digital security training and resources in Colombia
Digital Attack Map
Digital Attack Map visualizes the most powerful DDoS attacks happening in the world right now
Briar Project
Secure messaging, anywhere
Guide to organizational security
We partnered with the Ford Foundation to look at how civil society can strengthen their digital security, what and who is out there to support them, and how they can develop better digital security pr...
Digital Defense Fund
We are Digital Defense Fund, and we do digital security for the abortion access movement.
Safetag
SAFETAG adapts traditional penetration testing and risk assessment methodologies to be relevant to smaller non-profit organizations.
eclips.is
eclips.is is a free, lightweight platform where you can launch your (virtual) servers. It is funded by Open Technology Fund (OTF) to facilitate an easy accessible cloud infrastructure.
Digital Defenders Partnership
We support Human Rights Defenders facing digital threats and work to strengthen local rapid response networks.
Cloudflare for Campaigns
It is designed to make it easier for all political campaigns and parties, especially those with small teams and limited resources, to get access to cybersecurity services.
Surveillance Self-Defense
The Surveillance Self-Defense guide from the Electronic Frontier Foundation provides expert tips, tools, and how-to's for safer online communications and protecting against online spying
Gender and Technology Institutes
In partnerships with local and international organisations, each GTI has further developed specific facilitation methodologies and training contents addressing the risks, attacks and contexts faced by...
Defend Our Movements
Defend Our Movements is a web based clearinghouse of the most up-to-date and useful information about protecting your devices and data—whether on the Internet, through cell phone communications, or in...
Tor Project
Defend yourself against tracking and surveillance. Circumvent censorship.
Intra
Intra is an Android app that protects against DNS manipulation, making it easy to access blocked websites and apps and get safer access to the internet.
Project Galileo
If you are an organization working in the arts, human rights, civil society, journalism, or democracy, you can apply for Project Galileo to get Cloudflare’s cybersecurity protection
SecureDrop
SecureDrop is an open-source whistleblower submission system that media organizations can use to securely accept documents from and communicate with anonymous sources.
Psiphon
Psiphon is a free and open-source internet censorship circumvention tool that uses a combination of secure communication and obfuscation technologies, providing open access to the internet for million...
The Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto
The Citizen Lab is an interdisciplinary laboratory based at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, University of Toronto, focusing on research, development, and high-level strategic policy...
ElectionGuard
Protecting democratic elections through secure, verifiable voting
Jigsaw
How can technology make people in the world safer?
Open Tech Fund (OTF)
We support the research, design, development, and deployment of technology-focused projects that counter online censorship and combat repressive surveillance, to enable global internet users to exerci...
Transformative Cyber Innovation Lab
The Transformative Cyber Innovation Lab (TCIL or Lab) will find and nurture technologically feasible, testable pilot projects which begin to solve some of the hardest cyber problems afflicting the nat...
Totem
Totem is an online learning platform on using digital security tools and tactics effectively for journalists, activists, and trainers.
SOAP Security for Organisations through Automated Policymaking
The free and simple tool that enables civil society organizations to build better security policies.
The Digital First Aid Kit
The Kit offers a set of self-diagnostic tools for human rights defenders, bloggers, activists and journalists facing attacks themselves, as well as providing guidelines for digital first responders to...
CryptoHarlem
CryptoHarlem is a Digital Surveillance Clinic that has been meeting on a monthly basis since 2013 in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City. It is always open to the public and completely free of ch...
NYC Libraries Digital Safety program
NYC Digital Safety: Privacy & Security is a partnership between New York City’s three library systems and METRO, a library resources council serving NYC and Westchester County