election security

Federal guidance for how to standardize elections

A new report from the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC) tested the durability of a new kind of way for people to vote. Electronic poll books, or…

Management

FILE - In this Oct. 15, 2020, file photo, Attorney General William Barr speaks during a roundtable discussion on Operation Legend in St. Louis. Barr has announced he is resigning. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson, File)

Trump says Barr resigning, will leave before Christmas

People

3 ways ransomware could threaten election infrastructure

Federal Insights

CrowdStrike

Election security: Thwarting disinformation and interference in 2020

Commentary

FILE - In this April 2, 2020 file photo, a United States Postal Service worker makes a delivery with gloves and a mask in Warren, Mich. A group of states suing over service cuts at the U.S. Postal Service is asking a federal judge to immediately undo some of them, saying the integrity of the upcoming election is at stake.(AP Photo/Paul Sancya,File)

Election security woes only growing for 2020 presidential race, including DHS’ response

Cybersecurity

What the last decade’s laws did to American democracy

Federal Drive

FILE - In this Aug. 16, 2019, file photo, a man feeds a ballot card into a digital voting machine during a demonstration in Raleigh, N.C. A new report says the nation’s elections are vulnerable to attack due to a lack of robust federal oversight of the private companies that are involved in everything from manufacturing voting systems to maintaining voter registration databases (AP Photo/Allen G. Breed, File)

State, local elections officials agree no ‘one-size-fits-all-approach’ exists for cybersecurity

Security Strategies in Government

NSA creates new Cybersecurity Directorate

In today’s Federal Newscast, the National Security Agency is bringing together its foreign intelligence and cyber defense missions into a new directorate.

Federal Newscast

Voter registration a key weakness to election security, watchdog says

Local jurisdictions’ control and operation of elections is a tradition but as the issue of election security becomes front and center, should Congress…

Federal Drive

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and President Donald Trump listen to French President Emmanuel Macron delivering a speech before a lunch at the Elysee Palace in Paris during commemorations marking the 100th anniversary of the 11 November 1918 armistice, ending World War I, Sunday, Nov. 11, 2018. (Jacques Demarthon/Pool Photo via AP)

International cyber ‘Kum Ba Yah’ lacks U.S. signature

Tom Temin Commentary

The Paris Call for Trust and Security in Cyberspace has 51 nations’ signatures, but not that of the United States.