Highly publicized campaign and political party breaches during the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign raised election security as a critical issue among U.S. policy makers in the years that followed. These concerns peaked leading up to and during the 2020 U.S. Presidential election, and efforts by the Cybersecurity Infrastructure and Security Agency (CISA) and other government entities at the federal, state and local level have made critical progress towards more effectively securing national and state elections.
The election of President Joe Biden and subsequent challenges to this 2020 result understandably shifted national media and policymaker attention away from foreign attacks on election systems to domestic partisan disinformation about election results and physical threats towards election officials and their frontline employees. ...read more!
