Vatican CyberVolunteers

We are a group of talented cybersecurity professionals from all over the world who work daily in companies and organizations in the field of cybersecurity. We dedicate our time and efforts to help bolster and secure the Vatican Cyber defenses by offering free consultancy, hands-on services and cloud services for free or against cost-price. Vatican City has a sprawling system of websites administered by the Internet Office of the Holy See and organized under the country code top-level domain “.va”. The Vatican’s web presence has expanded steadily since its launched its main website, www.vatican.va, in 1995. ( List of websites: http://www.vatican.va/siti_va/index_va_en.htm ) Hackers have frequently targeted the Vatican since it first went online. In 2012, the hacking group Anonymous briefly blocked access to www.vatican.va and disabled other sites, including those of the Vatican secretariat of state and the Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano. A British cyber security consultancy approached the Vatican following reports in July 2020 that suspected Chinese state-sponsored hackers had targeted Vatican computer networks. The need to secure, like any organization in the world, is very clear in the Vatican, and we like to help. POPE FRANCIS: VOLUNTARY WORKERS ARE BUILDERS OF PEACE AND HARMONY Pope Francis thanks voluntary workers across the globe describing their work with men and women in difficulty as a living witness of the tenderness of Christ, who walks with humanity in every era.