The Defend Foundation

About

The Defend Foundation

Making digital safety accessible to everyone.

Our mission

The Defend Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit building public-interest technology to help individuals and communities prevent, navigate, and remediate digital harm.

Through practical tools, step-by-step guidance, responsible use of AI, and a network of verified organizations we are building, we're working to make digital safety and meaningful remediation more accessible to everyone.

What we do

The Foundation provides the information, tools, and resources people need to understand what happened, take the right next steps, and find help they can trust.

  1. Understand

    Help people understand what happened and which official places can help.

  2. Step-by-Step Guides

    Put the steps for common situations in order, with links to the official places to take them.

  3. Find support

    Point people to nonprofit victim-support organizations for one-on-one help.

Start with the one that fits; you don't need to follow them in order.

How the Foundation works

  • Practical guidance

    Step-by-step Guides, with links to the official places to go.

    Get Help

  • Designed for privacy

    Guides and the Privacy Center work without an account, and your answers stay in your browser tab.

    Security & Privacy

  • Verified organizations

    The Defend Network is coming soon: organizations and professionals the Foundation will verify for specific kinds of help.

    Defend Network

  • Independent research

    In development

    The Foundation's public intelligence initiative to measure the scale and impact of cybercrime. It isn't available yet.

Governance and accountability

The Defend Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Everything it builds is held to these commitments.

About Security & Privacy

  • Your information stays with you

    Guides and the Privacy Center work without an account, and your answers stay in your browser tab. We build Defend around collecting as little as possible, for only as long as it's needed.

  • Official sources, with their dates

    Our guidance points to the official places to go, such as government agencies and the companies involved, and shows when its sources were last checked.

  • You decide what is sent

    Defend doesn't contact anyone or send anything for you unless you review the request and authorize it. No AI system can authorize a request for you.

  • Verification can't be bought

    Payment, sponsorship, or donations never buy an organization's verification, ranking, or place in the Defend Network.

Contact the Foundation

Questions about the Foundation, its work, partnerships or research? Send us a message.

Contact Us

We welcome messages from

  • Organizations interested in the Defend Network
  • Researchers
  • Journalists and media
  • Potential partners
  • Anyone with a general question about the Foundation

Support the Foundation

Your support helps The Defend Foundation provide resources, tools, and assistance to people affected by cybercrime and identity theft.

Donate