The 2024 election season is upon us, and with it comes a renewed focus on security. IT and security providers for federal and local agencies involved in election processes have a critical responsibility to understand the multifaceted threat landscape facing our democratic institutions.
The federal government formed the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) in response to the well-documented, widespread election interference of 2016. Now CISA has sounded the alarm on a daunting number of new threats targeting the 2024 election. The possibility of governments abroad not just actively running misinformation campaigns but also targeting and attacking election systems has been a particular concern for the agency this year. Eric Goldstein, CISA’s executive assistant director for cybersecurity, described “a really difficult cybersecurity environment” that includes “extraordinary advances by nation-state adversaries China, Russia, Iran, North Korea.” ...read more!
