ground·wire /ˈɡroundˌwī(ə)r/ n:
A safe path that prevents systemic failure.
At Groundwire Advisors, we help mission-driven organizations build digital resilience — keeping communications, data, operations, and communities secure from digital threats.
The internet transformed how civil society operates — how citizens access services, how movements organize, how information flows. That transformation brought new vectors for surveillance, harassment, and disruption alongside new opportunities for connection.
Rising attacks on civil society have turned routine technology decisions into safety vulnerabilities. Organizations that can't protect their data, maintain their infrastructure, or safely navigate tools like AI find themselves unable to serve their communities — or keep digital threats from becoming physical ones.
Mission-driven organizations need more than reactive security. They need practical digital literacy skills and tools for resilience rooted in their values.
Our Experience
Groundwire brings decades of combined experience in digital security support, human rights advocacy, and organizational resilience to U.S.-based mission-driven organizations. We recognize that while the domestic threat landscape differs from the complex contexts we've worked in internationally, the fundamental challenge remains the same: organizations need practical, mission-aligned approaches to digital resilience that build trust rather than create barriers.
Josh Levy
Principal and Co-Founder
Previous to Groundwire, Josh co-founded Center for Digital Resilience, a global NGO facilitating digital security support for human rights communities across the Middle East, Africa, Southeast Asia, and Latin America.
Working with activists, journalists, and civil society organizations facing state-sponsored attacks, surveillance, and targeted harassment, Josh channeled his background as a technologist and digital rights advocate into developing incident response platforms and frameworks, digital risk threat modeling, and building organizational capacity under high-risk conditions.
Before CDR, he spent a decade directing technology and human rights advocacy campaigns at Free Press and Access Now and founded the Digital Security Exchange to connect U.S. nonprofits with cybersecurity experts.
Galia Nurko
Principal and Co-Founder
Galia brings experience conducting large-scale digital risk assessments in complex threat environments.
As Director of Strategy and Development at the Global Cyber Alliance, and previously at DAI Global, where she built their digital security portfolio and co-authored USAID's Cybersecurity Primer, Galia has worked across continents—from researching digital trust in Ghana and India to assessing cybersecurity maturity in Ukraine, Peru, and the Western Balkans.
Galia’s work combines technical security knowledge with a deep understanding of how vulnerable communities navigate digital risks.
Our Unique Approach
At Groundwire we provide support rooted in care, not fear, providing organizations with trusted guidance through complex technology decisions centered in safety and trust. We do this through:
Digital risk assessments tailored to organizational context and capacity
Security-first technology strategy and implementation support
Staff training and leadership coaching centering responsible technology decision-making and right-sized approaches to digital safety
Policy development and operational frameworks for responsible technology use
Portfolio-wide insights to help funders and networks allocate resources strategically for the digital safety and trust of their grantees, reducing investment risk.
Strategic evaluations of technology's organizational, social, and political implications beyond adoption or technical fixes
Incident response protocols and crisis management guidance, for when technology is compromised
Effective digital resilience isn't about implementing the most sophisticated tools. It's about right-sizing digital safety and trust to organizational capacity, mission, and actual threats and extending organizational culture to include collective responsibility over responsible technology use.
