A new database of 334 tools, services, and platforms deployed in the public interest by nonprofits to secure networks and empower and increase resilience of Internet users.

LONDON, March 13, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Common Good Cyber celebrated its first anniversary yesterday in London with the event Bridging the Gap: Delivering Cybersecurity to High-Risk Actors¹, opened by Andrew Whittaker, Head of Cyber Policy Department at the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) with a keynote speech by Jonathan Allen, Director General, Defence and Intelligence, FCDO.

Cyberattacks disrupt operations, leading to financial losses (e.g., reduced donations, halted services) and human consequences²(e.g. fraud, abuse, trauma). More than 10 million NGOs worldwide face cybersecurity threats, yet current support structures only reach a fraction of them.

This event focused on support for high-risk actors like journalists, activists, and rights defenders, understanding and addressing gaps in cybersecurity resources, and supporting the cybersecurity nonprofits that provide those resources.

With support from the UK FCDO and the European Union Institute for Security Studies, Common Good Cyber reviewed the cybersecurity tools, services, and platforms deployed in the public interest to secure networks, empower Internet users, and increase resilience across sectors.

The result is a Common Good Cyber Mapping Database,³ which so far categorizes 334 public interest-driven cybersecurity tools, services, and platforms organized in six groups: Govern, Identify, Protect, Detect, Respond, and Recover.

These initiatives form a vital layer of defense for the broader digital commons, and yet their maintenance and deployment is disproportionately distributed among nonprofits, individuals, and volunteers with limited resources and budgets.

At the event, participants discussed the need for multi-year, unrestricted funding, as organizations currently spend up to 30% of their budgets on securing funding instead of focusing on their mission.

"Organizations and people must navigate an increasingly dangerous digital landscape. Security should be fundamental and available to everyone like safe drinking water, but instead digital security is a daily struggle, managed by people and at-risk actors with help from resources provided by nonprofits with limited means themselves. Common Good Cyber is committed to changing this—improving security and resilience for everyone and supporting the cybersecurity-focused nonprofits that protect us all," said Philip Reitinger, President and CEO of the Global Cyber Alliance, which formed the Common Good Cyber initiative.

Attendees, including policymakers, were encouraged to take the message back to their governments and advocate for better, long-term funding for cybersecurity nonprofits.

Common Good Cyber aims to establish a joint funding mechanism for nonprofit organizations that aim to protect high-risk actors and the public by March 2026.

About Global Cyber Alliance

The Global Cyber Alliance (GCA) is an international nonprofit organization working with communities to improve the Internet and help people and organizations be more secure online. It achieves this in three ways: working with communities; engaging infrastructure owners and operators; and driving ecosystem engagement for collective action on cybersecurity. GCA is a 501(c)(3) in the U.S. and a nonprofit in the U.K. and Belgium.

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