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Election security

Election cybersecurity or election security refers to the protection of elections and voting infrastructure from cyberattack or cyber threat – including the tampering with or infiltration of voting machines and equipment, election office networks and practices, and voter registration databases.

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Legislation and policy best practices

Cybersecurity research and findings

Europe

United States

Security of voter registration databases

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Election security

Nodes69
Edges68
Triples94
Avg. degree1.97
Density0.028986
Components1

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Election security

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related to Post 2016 Election · 36
Election security → Alabama, Alaska, American, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Currently, Delaware, Department, DHS, Election, Florida, Homeland Security, Illinois, In, IO, Iowa, Kremlin-backed, Maryland
related to Voting Village at DEFCON · 21
Election security → Additional, August, DC, DEF CON, DEFCON, During, From July, IT, Las Vegas, Nevada, Never Gonna Give You, October, One, Rick Astley's, September, The, Up, Village Findings, Voting Machine Hacking Village, Voting Village
related to Legislation and policy best practices · 15
Election security → Ballot, Call, CIS, Critical Security Controls, Designate, DRE, From, NIST's Cybersecurity Framework, Pass, Pre-election, Provide, Transition, US Election Assistance Commission, Verify, VVPAT
related to United States · 9
Election security → Department, Elections, Homeland Security, However, In, Jeh Johnson, Secretary, The, The United States
related to External links · 8
Election security → CISA, Director, Election Interference Terms, National Intelligence, NIST, Security Glossary, Source-backed, Verified Voting

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election security voting voter hackers elections cyber registration state states cybersecurity equipment infrastructure 2016 machines village local 2018 databases officials

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the CISinstance ofa statistical post-election audit before certification of final results.Ballot accounting and reconciliation to ensure all ballots are accounted forGive voters an opportunity to…0.80text
secretaries of stateinstance ofElections are a constitutional responsibility of state and local election entities0.80text
election directorsinstance ofElections are a constitutional responsibility of state and local election entities0.80text
county clerks or other local level officials encompassing more than 6instance ofElections are a constitutional responsibility of state and local election entities0.80text
000instance ofElections are a constitutional responsibility of state and local election entities0.80text
Election securityrelated to External linksVerified Voting0.60section
Election securityrelated to External linksSecurity Glossary0.60section
Election securityrelated to External linksElection Interference Terms0.60section
Election securityrelated to External linksSource-backed0.60section
Election securityrelated to External linksNIST0.60section
Election securityrelated to External linksCISA0.60section
Election securityrelated to External linksDirector0.60section

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