A groundwire provides the safe path that prevents systemic failure. At Groundwire Advisors, we help mission-driven organizations build organizational digital resilience—keeping communications, data, operations, and communities secure from digital threats.

The Internet has fundamentally transformed how civil society operates; how citizens access government, business, healthcare, and education; how information is collected, stored and communicated; and how movements organize. We're faced with both unprecedented opportunities for connection and new vectors for surveillance, harassment, and disruption. Every decision about communication platforms, data storage, or AI carries safety and trust considerations that affect entire communities and movements.

Rising attacks on civil society have transformed routine technology decisions into safety and trust vulnerabilities. Organizations that cannot protect their data, maintain their digital infrastructure, or safely leverage new technologies, like AI, find themselves unable to serve their communities effectively, maintain the trust essential to advancing their mission, or keep online attacks from spilling over into physical threats.

Mission-driven organizations need support navigating technology choices that keep their staff and communities safe, rather than exposing them to additional risk. This requires moving beyond reactive security to proactively building digital literacy and resilience rooted in organizational values. 

Our Experience

We bring 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.

Previous to Groundwire, Josh Levy 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 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. Her work combines technical security knowledge with a deep understanding of how vulnerable communities navigate digital risks.

Groundwire’s 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.  

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