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What to expect when you’re electing: Talos’ 2020 election security primer

Summary: Cisco Talos published a 2020 election security primer drawing on four years of conversations with local, state and national officials, independent research, and real-time observation of one state planning an election. The paper covers election security funding since 2016, communication between state, local and federal agencies, the technical elements of American election architecture, and how the COVID-19 pandemic adds uncertainty to a year whose challenges differ from 2016.

Why it matters: Talos states plainly that this is not enterprise security - it is how Americans distribute power - and that every state, and in many states every county, runs a different system, so a single control or playbook will not map across the election infrastructure a defender is asked to help protect.

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