The Shield Project
Protecting free expression from threats on the internet
Project Shield is a free service that defends against DDoS assaults on websites related to elections, human rights, news, underrepresented communities, the arts, and the sciences.
Project Shield, created by Jigsaw and Google Cloud and powered by Google Cloud Armor, provides free, indefinite protection against DDoS attacks, a type of online assault that censors information by taking websites down.
This protection is shared by the same teams and infrastructure as Google's core services, including Gmail, Maps, and Search.
Each of Project Shield's solutions is essential to protecting its customers. Google Cloud Load Balancing serves your traffic from Google's global network, which enhances performance and makes scalable global traffic controls possible. By doing this, you could increase the reliability and speed of users from all over the world who connect to your website. After a cloud load balancer handles your traffic, it can turn on additional safeguards like Cloud Armor and Cloud CDN.
By decreasing attack traffic at the periphery of Google's infrastructure, Cloud Armor keeps your website secure and functional regardless of where the backend is located. Adaptive Protection uses machine learning to analyze your traffic and detect and prevent attacks, employing the same safeguards that protect its largest commercial clients.
Project Shield enhances security without blocking legitimate users or search engines from accessing your website by implementing rate limits that are tailored for it. These proactive protections act instantly upon detecting malicious traffic, often banning attackers within the first few seconds.
Traffic can resolve at Google's network edge thanks to Cloud CDN's caching, giving your backend a break. This can assist defend against broad, shallow DDoS attacks when millions of attackers send what looks to be a normal amount of bandwidth. Cacheable content on your website can speed up user access and reduce the load on your hosting servers. During legitimate spikes, as when your website becomes popular, or during a major event, like election day, caching may help keep your website operational and considerably reduce the burden on your servers.
Any business may immediately use these services through the Google Cloud interface, and they can be set up and customized to protect any type of workload—not only those that are eligible for Project Shield. By following these guidelines, businesses who are not eligible for Project Shield can nonetheless take advantage of the Cloud Networking technologies that Project Shield is based on.
Project Shield, created by Jigsaw and Google Cloud and powered by Google Cloud Armor, provides free, indefinite protection against DDoS attacks, a type of online assault that censors information by taking websites down.
The actions of Project Shield
Protect your website against DDoS attacks
Project Shield filters out malicious data by utilizing Google's infrastructure and DDoS technology. In the event of a DDoS assault, its servers will block the harmful traffic to keep your website up and running.Reduce your traffic costs
Project Shield can be configured to retrieve content from your website's servers once and then provide a cached copy upon further requests. This reduces the amount of traffic to your servers and absorbs any DDoS attacks.Features
Unhindered protection from complex attacks
Project Shield uses Google infrastructure to offer unrestricted defense against layer 3/4 and layer 7 attacks. The protection of every site is immediately set up and personalized.Flexible caching
It makes advantage of content caching to improve site speed, strengthen DDoS protections, and save bandwidth. Users have the option to invalidate the cache when they publish updated content.Specific Defenses
Project Shield provides tools like reCAPTCHA and IP allow and deny lists for improved site security.Real-time site metrics
Site traffic, error rates, and bandwidth savings may be rapidly examined using Project Shield's under-the-hood data.Project Shield by Google
Google Cloud has announced that Project Shield is expanding its eligibility criteria to include organizations representing underrepresented groups and non-profits that promote the arts and sciences. Attacks and censorship attempts against these types of organizations sometimes include DDoS as a regular component. Project Shield is now available to these recently certified businesses at no cost to defend their websites against DDoS attacks.The same safeguards that protect Google
Project Shield is built on top of Google Cloud Networking and its global front-end solution. It is operated by Google Cloud in partnership with Jigsaw and integrates the global front-end with Google Cloud Load Balancing, Cloud CDN, and Cloud Armor. When combined, this system and its auxiliary technologies can stop attacks, store your data, and send it from different places via Google's edge network.This protection is shared by the same teams and infrastructure as Google's core services, including Gmail, Maps, and Search.
Each of Project Shield's solutions is essential to protecting its customers. Google Cloud Load Balancing serves your traffic from Google's global network, which enhances performance and makes scalable global traffic controls possible. By doing this, you could increase the reliability and speed of users from all over the world who connect to your website. After a cloud load balancer handles your traffic, it can turn on additional safeguards like Cloud Armor and Cloud CDN.
By decreasing attack traffic at the periphery of Google's infrastructure, Cloud Armor keeps your website secure and functional regardless of where the backend is located. Adaptive Protection uses machine learning to analyze your traffic and detect and prevent attacks, employing the same safeguards that protect its largest commercial clients.
Project Shield enhances security without blocking legitimate users or search engines from accessing your website by implementing rate limits that are tailored for it. These proactive protections act instantly upon detecting malicious traffic, often banning attackers within the first few seconds.
Traffic can resolve at Google's network edge thanks to Cloud CDN's caching, giving your backend a break. This can assist defend against broad, shallow DDoS attacks when millions of attackers send what looks to be a normal amount of bandwidth. Cacheable content on your website can speed up user access and reduce the load on your hosting servers. During legitimate spikes, as when your website becomes popular, or during a major event, like election day, caching may help keep your website operational and considerably reduce the burden on your servers.
Any business may immediately use these services through the Google Cloud interface, and they can be set up and customized to protect any type of workload—not only those that are eligible for Project Shield. By following these guidelines, businesses who are not eligible for Project Shield can nonetheless take advantage of the Cloud Networking technologies that Project Shield is based on.
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