Cloudflare, a content delivery network and distributed denial of service (DDoS) mitigation company, has announced the Project Safekeeping program to provide zero trust security solutions free of charge to small and medium-sized critical infrastructure organizations.Project Safekeeping is open to nonprofit entities, local government entities and small and medium-sized private organizations that primarily focus on providing services that are "vital to their communities' health, safety and basic economic needs," Cloudflare said. It is currently available to critical infrastructure organizations in Australia, Germany, Japan, Portugal and the United Kingdom.
Project Safekeeping Explained
Project Safekeeping is designed to protect under-resourced critical infrastructure organizations against cyberattacks and data breaches, Cloudflare said. It provides eligible critical infrastructure organizations with free access to Cloudflare's zero trust security services and application security products.Meanwhile, Project Safekeeping participants can access a variety of security capabilities, including:- Real-time verification of application end-users
- Secure web gateway (SWG) that filters unwanted content from web traffic, blocks unauthorized user behavior and enforces an organization's security policies
- Cloud access security broker (CASB) that protects an organization's data through access control and data loss prevention, identifies shadow IT instances and ensures an organization complies with data privacy regulations
- Data loss prevention (DLP) that secures an organization's data in transit
- Protecting against phishing, business email compromise (BEC) attacks, malware-less fraud and other email-based threats
