Sentences with phrase «election infrastructure»

The bipartisan committee offered a set of measures to defend domestic election infrastructure against hostile foreign nations.

It also suggested Congress take a larger role in addressing Russia's cyber activity and empower state and local authorities to secure election infrastructure.

On the program, he was interviewed about U.S. election infrastructure, Russian efforts to influence the 2016 election and his concern that the Trump administration has yet to deter Russian interference in the upcoming midterm election.

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Concerns were also raised about the security of election infrastructure in the light of Russian efforts to hack or otherwise influence U.S. politics, and Comey was asked what the FBI is doing specifically to help defend against such foreign cybersecurity threats.

By adding election infrastructure into the list, it meant the DHS would prioritize requests from election officials, including cybersecurity protections.

The Graham - Klobuchar Amendment aims at achieving Secure State Election Infrastructure through a Federal - State collaborative commission of stakeholders.

Homeland Security told Wisconsin that the Russian government «scanned internet - connected election infrastructure likely seeking specific vulnerabilities such as access to voter registration databases, but the attempt to exploit vulnerabilities was unsuccessful,» he said.

Cyberwar Concerns This last week the Washington Post published a bombshell story on the recent attacks on the US election infrastructure ironically under their motto «Democracy dies in darkness.»

Specifically, the bill aims to streamline information sharing between federal and state election officials, revise the delivery of security clearances to state officials to allow them to view sensitive cyber threat information related to elections and provide aid to states to bolster the security around digital election infrastructure.

«While scanning and probing of networks happens across the internet every day, we have not seen specific or credible evidence of Russian attempts to infiltrate state election infrastructure like we saw in 2016,» Jeanette Manfra, the chief cybersecurity official at the Department of Homeland Security, said in an interview last week.

The bill, which is expected to pass later this week, includes $ 380 million for state grants to improve election infrastructure, as well as $ 307 million above what the Trump administration had requested for the F.B.I. that can be used to combat cyberattacks, election fraud and other crimes.

The bill, which senators have hinted at for several months, would push federal agencies to share election security information with state and local officials, establish voluntary cybersecurity guidelines for election systems, and create a federal bug bounty program for voting machines and other election infrastructure.

The rest of the report focused on how to bolster U.S. election infrastructure and practice against foreign attacks.

During an August conference call with election officials from every state, Johnson reiterated that «we must ensure the security and resilience of election infrastructure,» and offered his agency's assistance.

The Graham - Klobuchar Amendment Can Secure Election Infrastructure: It's Time for Real Election Cybersecurity Reformation

The measures would provide some variation of federal support, including grants, for states to beef up security of their election infrastructures.

Johnson floated the idea of including «election infrastructure» into the US's 16 «critical infrastructures» — governmental sectors; such as financial services, dams, transportation, government facilities, that are vital to the country.

«There is no credible doubt that Russia attacked our election infrastructure in 2016,» Gillibrand said.

«U.S. election infrastructure is fundamentally resilient,» according to the summary of a Senate intelligence committee report.

Despite improvements since Russia's attack on the 2016 presidential race, the U.S. elections infrastructure is vulnerable — and will remain so in November.

However, recognizing that state and local officials should be kept informed about cybersecurity risks to election infrastructure, we are working with them to refine our processes for sharing this information while protecting the integrity of investigations and the confidentiality of system owners.

Homeland Security said it recognizes that state and local officials should be kept informed about cybersecurity risks to election infrastructure.

, a lead co-sponsor of the «Secure Elections Act» bill, said Thursday that the revised version «adequately helps the states prepare our election infrastructure for the possibility of interference from not just Russia, but possibly another adversary like Iran or North Korea or a hacktivist group.»

In this analysis, entitled «The Graham - Klobuchar Amendment Can Secure Election Infrastructure: It's Time for Real Election Cybersecurity Reformation» ICIT provides the first analysis of this important amendment which provides states with the crucial funding necessary to modernize and secure election systems.

We know the Russians tried to hack into our election infrastructure.

«The U.S. government should clearly communicate to adversaries that an attack on our election infrastructure is a hostile act, and we will respond accordingly,» the committee's Republican chairman, Senator Richard M. Burr of North Carolina, and Democratic vice chairman, Senator Mark Warner of Virginia, said in a statement.

He continued: «The default installation or subsequent use of remote - access software on sensitive election systems runs contrary to cybersecurity best practices and needlessly exposes our election infrastructure to cyberattacks.»

The Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday released a draft of recommendations to improve the nation's election infrastructure, outlining the need for IT upgrades, universal adoption of paper ballots, and increased funding to safeguard against future cyberattacks.