Linha Alerta is part of a combined project – awareness node and hotline service – called Internet Segura and co-funded until December 2010 by the European Commission under the Safer Internet plus program. The consortium Internet Segura consists of the following members:

• UMIC – National Agency for Knowledge Society;
• Ministry of Education;
• FCCN – Foundation for National Scientific Computing; and
• Microsoft Portugal.

The hotline service is maintained by FCCN within its security services group CERT.PT. In June 2007 Linha Alerta submitted its membership application to INHOPE association and has achieved it in October of the same year.