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39 States. Elections Hacked. How Land of Lincoln is Reacting to Protect Midterm Elections.

State: Illinois

Illinois’ Solutions to prevent election hacking in the 2018 mid term elections:

Sending election officials a letter with these instructions:
- scrub voting systems of potential malware
- fill any kind of security gaps
- continue to be vigilant

Politico | LAND OF LINCOLN PREPS FOR 2018

WGN | Illinois among 8 states investigating Russian hacking of its elections

Chicago Tribune | From the community: Sen. Michael E. Hastings works to protect Illinois election data from…

One Country Looks to Protect its Elections

Country: Germany

The protections that Germany seeks to combat election hacking:

Greater hacking authority for its law enforcement
Specifically, Germans are pushing for the ” use co-called Staatstrojaner, or “state-trojan,” to break into computers and smartphones.”
German high courts have limited the ability for government hacking unless lives are at stake.

SC Media | Lawmakers in Germany push for encryption-busting trojan in lead up to election

Anatomy of a State Election Hack. 3 Key Points.

The state: Illinois

The election data target: no specific data target, it was a broadly executed hack on the Illinois election system

The hack: Retrieving voter information via voter identification number starting at “000000001 and incrementally adding one” digit

The Hill | Illinois voting records hack didn’t target specific records, says IT staff

Regulatory Trend. Election Hacking Unit. 3 Key Points for your state.

The U.K. Parliament is working to create an election hacking unit that:

The unit’s goal: help ensure the integrity of UK Democracy & public confidence
The unit will be monitoring only
Recommendations focus on an executive level, law enforcement driven unit

SC Magazine UK | Parliamentary committee proposes unit to combat ‘election hacking’

Data Security Threat Forces Government to Hold Elections Old School Style.

Holland- the country, not the city in Michigan, will count all its ballots by hand as a reaction to the possibility of election tampering by hackers.

USA Today | Amid hacking fears, Dutch to use pen, paper for vote

2 Concerns. Local Governments Have about Federal Data Security Standards for Elections.

Local governments are concerned about federal DHS cybersecurity regulations for local elections, because those federal regulations may :

Add an unnecessary layer of bureaucratic oversight
Would centralize an inherently local — and decentralized — system

What did DHS do to trigger these concerns? Declared elections to be critical infrastructure, which triggers additional protections and resources from the federal government.

Governing | New Election Cyberprotections Cause Confusion and…

TREND. Anatomy of A State Cyber Security Quick Reaction Force

Germany has created a mobile Quick Reaction Force to quickly address cyberthreats.

Which cyber threats will the Quick Reaction Force respond to? Cyber attacks on government agencies & critical infrastructure

Will there be cyber threat information sharing between business interests and the state? yes.

Why did they enact this Quick Reaction Force for cybersecurity? To protect Germany’s elections from Russian or Chinese hackers

DW.com | German cabinet approves cyber security…

2 States have Election Cyber Teams for Protection.

Which two states have national guard cyberteams monitoring the election? Ohio and Maryland

What’s swing state Ohio doing?

conducting penetration testing to see if state systems contain vulnerabilities
monitoring election data systems for irregularities
From Ohio’s Secretary of State: “Cyberwarfare is a new front for the military, for business and now for elections.”

What’s Maryland’s plan?