The 2020 election was the most secure in U.S. history when it came to protecting physical and cyber infrastructure, however, similar measures weren’t in place to protect the people who administered the elections. Election officials and their familie [...]

We’ve seen companies like Apple lean into protecting private data as a selling point for their products and states like California and Virginia attempt to regulate consumer data when faced with inaction on the federal level. Data privacy is much dis [...]

Interactive tool tracks narratives around this year’s German elections Washington, D.C. – The Alliance for Securing Democracy (ASD) at the German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF) today launched the 2021 German Elections Dashboard, an interac [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Wednesday, April 14, 2021    CONTACT: Rachael Dean Wilson or Kayla Goodson, press@securingdemocracy.org                                                                              The Government of Canada, Microsoft and ASD i [...]

In the lead up to the 2020 election, the government, private sector, and civil society took more than 200 actions to secure the election against foreign interference. They made substantial progress, but in many cases didn't anticipate that a domesti [...]

THE ALLIANCE FOR SECURING DEMOCRACY EXPANDS AUTHORITARIAN INTERFERENCE TRACKER TO INCLUDE CHINA Interactive tool catalogues over 160 examples of China’s efforts to undermine democracy in 24 countries Washington, D.C. – The Alliance for Securing Demo [...]

CONTACT: Rachael Dean Wilson, press@securingdemocracy.org; Elizabeth Seeger, press@cdt.org                                                                          Washington, D.C.— Experts from the Alliance for Securing Democracy (ASD) and the Cent [...]

The 2016 and 2020 campaign seasons and the subsequent government response normalized a damaging notion: that soliciting or participating in foreign interference in a U.S. election will not be prosecuted. Foreign governments from Beijing to Moscow an [...]

Alliance for Securing Democracy Director and GMF Senior Fellow Laura Rosenberger Selected for National Security Council Staff Washington, D.C. (January 15, 2021)—The German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF) congratulates Laura Rosenberger, Se [...]

The Alliance for Securing Democracy’s Lindsay Gorman and Bret Schafer teamed up with civic tech entrepreneur Clara Tsao and Harvard’s Dipayan Ghosh to explore national security vulnerabilities in the online information ecosystem in a series of paper [...]

The Alliance for Securing Democracy’s Senior Fellow Kristine Berzina is out with a new report, 5G Security: The New Energy Security, in which she examines the strategic vulnerabilities that can come from European technological dependence on China.   [...]

 ALLIANCE FOR SECURING DEMOCRACY RELEASES STRATEGY FOR DEMOCRACIES TO OFFSET AUTOCRATIC ADVANCES Bipartisan Task Force provides 24 recommendations across four areas of competition.                                            Washington, D.C. – The Al [...]

The Alliance for Securing Democracy’s Emerging Technology Fellow Lindsay Gorman is out with a new report, A Future Internet for Democracies: Contesting China’s Dominance in 5G, 6G, and the Internet-of-Everything, in which she details the stakes of c [...]

JUST RELEASED: IRAN’S AUTHORITARIAN PLAYBOOK New report by the Alliance for Securing Democracy lays out Iran’s playbook for interfering in the United States and other democracies. Contact: Kayla Goodson, press@securingdemocracy.org Washington, D.C.– [...]

    JUST RELEASED: 20 WAYS TO PROTECT THE 2020 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION New ASD and BPC report highlights vital election security measures that can be implemented before November Contact: Rachael Dean Wilson or Kayla Goodson, Alliance for SecuringDemoc [...]