Fighting Back Against Tech-Related Abuse

January is National Stalking Awareness Month, a time each year to acknowledge and educate about the dangers of stalking, which increasingly includes cyberstalking and other forms of tech-facilitated harassment. A 2025 study led by researchers at University College London found that cyberstalking is growing at a faster rate than traditional stalking and that cyberstalking often disproportionately affects women.  

At Gen, we believe that everyone should be able to navigate the digital world safely and confidently. That’s why we have long partnered with the National Network to End Domestic Violence (NNEDV) to develop resources that help survivors recognize and recover from tech-related abuse, including stalking, identity theft, financial abuse and more. The organization estimates that these resources served nearly 600,000 survivors since the start of our work together. 

Providing Survivors with Digital Safety Tools 

Together with NNEDV, we provide resources to survivors, allies, service providers and shelter staff to enable them with critical information about tech-related abuse and digital safety. Here are a few highlights from our work together: 

• Securing Devices and Accounts, a co-branded resource from NNEDV and our Cyber Safety brand, Norton, goes through the basics of digital security and privacy, tailored to the needs of and risks faced by survivors.
• Financial Abuse and Technology, another co-branded resource, explains the growing role that crimes like identity theft, controlling funds and fraud play in domestic violence.
• Norton sponsored and contributed speakers to NNEDV’s Virtual Tech Summit, a three-day conference that convened tech leaders and domestic violence survivor advocates to discuss safety planning, intimate image abuse, AI, stalkerware, online data, tech policy and tech-facilitated advocacy.
• Gen leaders Kim Allman and Iskander Sanchez-Rola participated in NNEDV’s webinar, “Increasing Privacy Online: Supporting Survivors of Domestic Violence in the Digital Age,” discussing why online privacy is important to survivors, which cybersecurity tools can help and more.
• The Safety Net Project, NNEDV’s broad initiative to combat tech-related abuse, conducted various trainings on digital safety and privacy in 2025, including a webinar in partnership with Norton and TechSoup.  

• The Safety Net also developed multiple new resources on how AI can impact survivors and “Documentation Tips for Survivors of Technology Abuse & Stalking,” designed to support survivors in documenting their experiences and safety planning.   

   

  Collectively, these resources served thousands of people in 2025. Additionally, beginning in 2024, Gen partnered with TechSoup to donate Norton 360 Deluxe and Norton Secure VPN to domestic violence survivors. Between April and December 2025, the program provided nearly 2,000 free Norton product licenses to help survivors recover from financial or other technological abuse, a collective retail value of more than $200,000. The Safe Shelter Collaborative receives the licenses from TechSoup and in turn delivers the products to survivors through its network of member organizations. NNEDV also collaborates on the donation program. 

Supporting Survivors on a Global Scale  

NNEDV also continued to raise awareness internationally in 2025. The Securing Devices and Accounts guide was included in the Global Network of Women’s Shelters’ newsletter as part of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women on November 25, and NNEDV presented the resource in Australia at the 5th World Conference of Women’s Shelters.  

For more information on how we harness our technology to support vulnerable communities worldwide, read our latest Social Impact Report.