Friday, February 16, 2018
https://www.raytheon.com/news/feature/protect_elections.html
To protect our elections
US intelligence officials warn voting could be hacked. A Raytheon expert offers four ways to meet the threat
Daly offers these four recommendations for securing voting systems ahead of the midterm elections:
1. Secretaries of State should convene, in an academic environment, a conference with their election officials and cybersecurity staff. The session should be used to review the importance of cybersecurity controls, the threat vectors that are known to have been exploited in systems, and the long history of election tampering that has been occurring since World War II. Improperly informed stakeholders are our greatest vulnerability.
2. Secretaries of State, their Boards of Elections and state cybersecurity leaders should document their end-to-end election process with all of its systems, dependencies and interfaces. Every state is different and has different threat vectors.
3. States should engage their vendors and IT organizations (across the end-to-end chain) to conduct technical testing to ensure systems are secured. This includes patching, segmentation, monitoring, wireless configurations, hardening to remove unnecessary applications and ensuring there are multiple redundancies and methods of validation.
4. State officials should contact the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and their National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center for help. That’s where they’ll find trained professionals ready to help with lessons learned from prior engagements.
“Today our intelligence leaders highlighted an urgent call to action - cybersecurity is a matter of national security,” Daly said. "It’s time to reshape the cyber landscape with a national defense doctrine that increases investment in our infrastructure, technologies, and training to deter our adversaries.”
I wonder if they would sponsor a CLE series.
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