Ask HN: What tools to use for a political party IT infrastructure?

  • In this day and age, I'd recommend consulting with actual security professional for organizations as public as political parties.

    Short of that, make sure to (at least) cover the basics:

    - Ask everyone to use a trusted password manager and strong, unique password for everything. Avoid shared accounts and shared passwords.

    - Enable 2FA everywhere, strongly prefer authentication apps or even better, hardware tokens over SMS. Use SMS 2FA only as a last resort.

    - Have everyone go through cyber security awareness training. Many attacks start off as (spear) phishing emails and/or various social engineering shenanigans.

    - Update every piece of software obsessively. That includes everything from workstations and phones to servers, VPNs, routers and printers. Do not use any device which isn't supported anymore.

  • Use NextCloud.

    It's going to be worth doing threat modeling for different things, but a lot of operational problems can be solved with this and it is self-hosted

  • Probably not AWS if your party don't like Amazon.