The election infrastructure in the U.S. depends on the coordinated, secure interaction of thousands of state and local election officials using very different technologies. These range from large cities with fully electronic voting systems to small municipalities that still rely on paper ballots. As I work with officials from these diverse election authorities, I’ve developed a set of best practices that will enhance security in any election environment. Let’s take a look at five key measures that every Board of Elections should put in place.

Endpoints are on the front lines of every cybersecurity program. Laptops, smartphones, tablets and other end-user devices travel around the world, connecting to a variety of networks with varying degrees of security control. These devices require strong protections to ensure that they don’t become compromised and serve as the launching point for a broader attack on an organization. Next-generation endpoint protection platforms provide the 24/7 control required to keep an organization’s diverse set of devices safe and secure.

The decennial U.S. census is about to begin. The work of the census provides crucial information for government agencies, academic researchers and private businesses, but it also opens the door for cybercriminals seeking to exploit the widespread publicity around the census to conduct malicious attacks. We will inevitably witness social engineering attacks from individuals pretending to be associated with the census asking for Social Security numbers, passwords and other sensitive personally identifiable information.

Organizations need to prepare themselves for these inevitable attacks and ensure that their employees don’t fall for scams that accidentally compromise sensitive information.

Threat hunting has become an important cybersecurity practice. Building on the presumption that sophisticated attackers have already successfully penetrated many enterprise networks, threat hunting seeks to uncover evidence of these compromises, enabling a rapid response. While few of the organizations I work with are conducting threat hunting activities, many of them are talking about it….

A few months ago, I received an email from one of my customers, a senior IT leader at a state government agency. He had a problem on his hands. The organization’s digital footprint was growing, and its need for bandwidth seemed insatiable. No matter how much new capacity the agency added to the network, it…

I joined many of my colleagues in the information security community a couple of weeks ago for the annual gathering of the tribe at RSA’s 2019 conference. We come together every year to share our thoughts on the latest trends in security — and every year, a theme emerges. It looks like 2019 will be…