1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Creating Candidate Capacity to Protect Act . 2. Exemption of cybersecurity assistance from limitations on amount of coordinated political party expenditures (a) Exemption Section 315(d)(5) of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 ( 52 U.S.C. 30116(d)(5) ) is amended— (1) by striking (5) and inserting (5)(A) ; (2) by striking the period at the end and inserting , or to expenditures (whether provided as funds or provided as in-kind services) for secure information communications technology or for a cybersecurity product or service. ; and (3) by adding at the end the following new subparagraph: (B) In subparagraph (A)— (i) the term secure information communications technology means a commercial-off-the-shelf computing device which has been configured to restrict unauthorized access and uses publicly available baseline configurations; and (ii) the term cybersecurity product or service means a product or service which helps an organization to achieve the set of standards, guidelines, best practices, methodologies, procedures, and processes to cost-effectively identify, detect, protect, respond to, and recover from cyber risks as developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology pursuant to subsections (c)(15) and (e) of section 2 of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Act ( 15 U.S.C. 272 ). . (b) Effective date The amendments made by subsection (a) shall apply with respect to expenditures made on or after the date of the enactment of this Act.