How we partner

DDC partners with a variety of trusted organizations and corporations to provide free cybersecurity products, onboarding support, and training to campaigns.

DDC partners to reach campaigns and other eligible entities to adopt free products under the Federal Election Commission Advisory Opinion and state approvals and train broadly across the political sector to potential candidates, campaigns, committees, and state parties. Our core partnerships include training organizations, digital and consulting firms, and technology corporate partners. If you are interested in learning more about partnering with DDC to defend our democracy, email us at info@defendcampagns.org.

Digital Firm/Consultant Partner

Digital firms play a critical role in campaigns as trusted vendors. In addition to setting up tech, developing essential marketing collateral, and devising strategies to help campaigns win, digital firms are in a unique position and have a stake in campaigns adopting better cybersecurity measures. DDC works with numerous leading - large and small - digital firms and consultants to seamlessly integrate the use of DDC’s free cybersecurity tools for their clients.

Digital firms and consultants can get the value-add of alerting their clients to free cybersecurity products and making direct recommendations about securing their client’s campaigns. DCC partners with digital firms/consultants in the following but not limited to:

Provide free services to campaigns as a recommendation from the firm
Direct assistance to clients with onboarding and support of DDC’s products
Offer escalation paths when additional support is needed. Example: if a campaign's website has been attacked
Provide free resources and information for you to share with clients

Training Partner

Training to make campaigns aware of the increased risks they face and how to implement core cybersecurity measures is a shared interest between DDC and many organizations. DDC partners with leading and most trusted national and local organizations in the political sector with an emphasis on organizations that recruit and train potential candidates and existing office holders. Training organizations of all political affiliations and non-partisan organizations are welcome to partner with us to continue to defend our democracy.

DDC can partner to:

Provide free training and conduct coordinated outreach to your eligible candidates to have them adopt free cybersecurity products from DDC
Provide free general cybersecurity training to non-eligible campaigns
Provide DDC-branded cybersecurity content for you to integrate into your training programs
Offer free resources and information for you to incorporate into your training content or website

Cybersecurity Technology Partner

DDC’s core mission is to provide free cybersecurity products to eligible campaigns and we achieve this through our generous cybersecurity technology partners. DDC partners with the industry’s most renowned companies to provide the most advanced and reliable cybersecurity services to campaigns.

Based on a Federal Election Commission Advisory Opinion, companies can provide these services through DDC without the company or the campaign running afoul of existing campaign finance laws.

DDC is always open to learning about new or existing products where companies are committed to protecting our democracy. All technology partners must be willing to donate to any eligible campaign regardless of party affiliation or candidate.

Our current technology partners

Amazon Web Services - Amazon provides a robust set of security services for AWS users

Cloudflare for Campaigns - This program defends a website's infrastructure from cyberattacks and unauthorized access.

Doppel - Doppel will automatically identify impersonators across social media platforms, including, but not limited to, X/Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Threads, Reddit, Telegram, and Discord. By leveraging the latest in AI, Doppel detects and takes down social media threats.

Facebook Protect - Designed for campaigns and state parties, this program helps Facebook to more quickly detect any potentially suspicious account activity by monitoring attempts to hack the account, such as unusual login locations or unverified devices.

Google Titan Security Keys - These physical security keys are small devices that are used in multifactor authentication to verify access to and strengthen security on online accounts.

iVerify - iVerify is a mobile tool aimed at detecting state-sponsored threats, like phishing attempts that contain mobile malware. It combines deep access to mobile operating system data, automated detection, and expert analysis to scale the end-to-end process of mobile threat hunting.

LastPass Teams - This encrypted, cloud-based password manager securely autosaves and auto-fill online passwords.

Microsoft AccountGuard - Helps to detect and defend against attacks with enhanced identity protection features including Azure Active Directory P2 trial licenses and a direct line to Microsoft's Democracy Forward team for security questions.

Stairwell - AI-powered threat detection and incident response solution that detects modern threats and provides a complete historical view of known and unknown past attacks – in seconds.

Sublime Security - Sublime prevents email attacks using AI and Detection-as-Code. It allows users to gain visibility and control, hunt for advanced threats, and spend less time on email-originated incidents by providing automatic remediation of malicious emails.

Wickr - This encrypted messaging operated by AWS offers the safest way to send and receive sensitive or vulnerable messages, files, and other data.

Yubico Yubikeys - These security keys make secure login easy and available. To protect secrets on servers, Yubiko has also created the YubiHSM, the world’s smallest hardware security module.

As of March of 2024, DDC’s technology partners have provided more than $5 million in donated products