Election Infrastructure Cybersecurity Working Group

Known as election infrastructure this assembly of systems and networks includes but is not limited to.

Election infrastructure cybersecurity working group. Under the designation dhs through its cybersecurity and infrastructure security agency cisa provides an array of services that state and local election officials can utilize to reduce both cyber and physical risk to their election systems and facilities. The working group was formed to increase cybersecurity awareness and education throughout the election subsector and provide input and best practices for current eiscc cybersecurity program and policy initiatives such as cyber hygiene training vulnerability. About the only thing the appointees have going for them is that they fit the.

Secretary of state padilla s appointment was made by the national association of secretaries of state nass a nonpartisan professional association representing the nation s chief state election officials. The cybersecurity and infrastructure security agency cisa works to ensure the physical security and cybersecurity of the systems and assets that supports the nation s elections. Election assistance commission chair benjamin hovland.

The working group will also share and disseminate cybersecurity best practices and solicit input on cybersecurity challenges facing state and local election officials and their voting infrastructure with the goal of helping dhs determine how it can better provide. 4 state gov officials 0 tech experts appointed to new dhs election infrastructure cybersecurity working group. Department of homeland security dhs cybersecurity and infrastructure security agency cisa director christopher krebs addresses dhs progress in reducing and mitigating risks to the nation s election infrastructure.

Acting attorney general matthew g. Sacramento california secretary of state of alex padilla has been appointed to the department of homeland security s election infrastructure cybersecurity working group.