Recently authorized by the Federal Election Commission, DDC is a nonprofit organization with the specific mission of directly engaging with U.S. National party committees and Congressional and Presidential campaigns in order to provide campaigns and political parties with the specific knowledge, training, and resources they need to defend themselves from cyber threats; and to create secure, nonpartisan forums for information sharing among and between campaigns, political parties, technology providers, law enforcement, and other government agencies in order to detect new and emerging cyber threats and facilitate the development and deployment of effective responses to neutralize them.