{"id":1037,"date":"2018-09-04T23:18:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-04T23:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/2018\/09\/04\/lege-trend-creating-an-office-of-elections-security-9-policy-goals-for-secure-elections\/"},"modified":"2018-09-04T23:18:00","modified_gmt":"2018-09-04T23:18:00","slug":"lege-trend-creating-an-office-of-elections-security-9-policy-goals-for-secure-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/lege-trend-creating-an-office-of-elections-security-9-policy-goals-for-secure-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Lege TREND. Creating an Office of Elections Security. 9 Policy Goals for Secure Elections."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>California&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/leginfo.legislature.ca.gov\/faces\/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB3075\">AB 3075 (2018 |\u00a0CA)<\/a>\u00a0which will require the Office of Elections Cybersecurity within the California Secretary of State&#8217;s office to:<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:justify;\">(1)\u00a0<strong>Coordinate efforts between the Secretary of State and local elections officials<\/strong>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:justify;\">(2) <strong>Monitor and counteract false or misleading information regarding the electoral process <\/strong>that is published online or on other platforms and that may suppress voter participation or cause confusion and disruption of the orderly and secure administration of elections.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:justify;\">(3) <strong>Coordinate with federal, state, and local agencies the sharing of information on threats<\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:justify;\">(4)\u00a0<strong>Develop best practices<\/strong> for protecting against threats to election cybersecurity<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:justify;\">(5)\u00a0<strong>Develop and include best practices for cyber incident responses in emergency preparedness plans<\/strong> for elections.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:justify;\">(6)\u00a0<strong>Identify resources\u00a0<\/strong>available to state and county elections officials.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:justify;\">(7)\u00a0<strong>Advise<\/strong> the Secretary of State<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:justify;\">(8)\u00a0<strong>Liaison <\/strong>between the Secretary of State, other state agencies, federal agencies, and local elections officials on election cybersecurity issues<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:justify;\">(9)<strong>\u00a0Coordinate effort\u00a0\u00a0to protect the security of Internet-connected elections-related resources<\/strong>, including all of the following:<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:justify;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gcn.com\/articles\/2018\/08\/31\/california-election-security-office.aspx\">GCN |\u00a0California creates elections security office<\/a>\u00a0<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/leginfo.legislature.ca.gov\/faces\/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB3075\">AB 3075 (2018 |\u00a0CA)<\/a>\u00a0which will require the Office of Elections Cybersecurity within the California Secretary of State&#8217;s office to:<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:justify;\">(1)\u00a0<strong>Coordinate efforts between the Secretary of State and local elections officials<\/strong>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:justify;\">(2) <strong>Monitor and counteract false or misleading information regarding the electoral process <\/strong>that is published online or on other platforms and that may suppress voter participation or cause confusion and disruption of the orderly and secure administration of elections.<\/div>\n<p>\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,36,3,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2019-legislative-issue","category-election-data-breach","category-legislative-trend","category-local-government","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}