Now Google's “Project Shield” will Protect News Websites from DDoS attacks!

Now Google will protect news websites from Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack. Google have launched his new initiative “Project Shield” on Thursday for this. It will be a free service for news websites. This initiative is not a new one, it is available since 2013. But only testers were allowed to use it until now. But now Google have launched it publicly.

Google wants to protect news websites from DDoS attacks and Cyber-attacks, especially those websites which are publishing news about oppressive regimes. By doing this, Google will also test Project Shield against DDoS attacks and Cyber-attacks. Google said, it is still a testing phase of Project Shield therefore we are allowing all small and big news websites to server their content through infrastructure of Google without paying a single penny. According to Google, this will be an open initiative for world’s all news websites.

Why Google is doing this?

According to Google, they are supporting free expressions and access to information. Journalism is the important part of any country and it should be active every time. When news websites faced DDoS attacks and Cyber Attacks, it sounds awkward. Cyber-attacks on news websites often happens, when it is needed most. Google is also thinking about to test Project Shield on Election monitoring websites and Human Rights Websites.

Company post a blog on the website of Project Shield, in which they have wrote that Google is launching this initiative because by doing this company will learn new things to protect websites from DDoS attacks. Company also wrote they have designed a proper infrastructure for this initiative but there are no guarantee, how much security it can provide to the websites. Many third party websites can use this initiative and that’s the reason why a number of human rights and election commission websites are applying for this initiative.

Conditions for Qualified Websites?

There are not any difficult things, which admins and webmasters have to learn to understand it. Only basic technical knowledge is required to understand all the processes of Project Shield. The news websites which will use this initiative, need to provide their access to Google. Because the webmasters of Project Shield will monitor all the traffic to find out the malicious activities. The list of all logs and traffics is required to Project Shield for accurate protection.

Google said, there are now thousands of news websites which are allowed to use this Project Shield. Even small individual websites are allowed to use this Project Shield without the fear of Shut down. CDN (Content Delivery Network) is the technique, which can save the companies from DDoS attacks. So the websites which are not using this CDN process could get benefits from Project Shield.

PortonMail encrypted email service, suffered a major DDoS attack in November 2015. World famous British Broadcasting Corporation’s (BBC) websites was also taken offline on December 31, by some hackers. A major DDoS attack was happened at that time and Servers of BBC were getting packets of 600GB per second.

Therefore Google is doing efforts to protect the Journalism of every country from Cyber Attacks and DDoS attacks.

Source: Securityweek