2020 U.S. Election: Cybersecurity Analysis
Feb 9, 2021Jocelyn Woolbright
Summary
This post details Cloudflare's cybersecurity efforts surrounding the 2020 U.S. elections, highlighting the Athenian Project and Project Galileo. It discusses the protection of election-related websites and infrastructure from cyberattacks and traffic surges. While it mentions the success of cybersecurity preparations and the lack of major publicly reported incidents, it does not delve into specific technical implementations of how Cloudflare's systems were built, scaled, migrated, or debugged. The focus is on the *application* of existing security services to a specific event and the organizations protected, rather than the underlying engineering of those services.
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