{"id":619,"date":"2017-01-11T19:44:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-11T19:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/2017\/01\/11\/2-concerns-local-governments-have-about-federal-data-security-standards-for-elections\/"},"modified":"2017-01-11T19:44:00","modified_gmt":"2017-01-11T19:44:00","slug":"2-concerns-local-governments-have-about-federal-data-security-standards-for-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/2-concerns-local-governments-have-about-federal-data-security-standards-for-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"2 Concerns. Local Governments Have about Federal Data Security Standards for Elections."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Local governments are concerned about federal DHS cybersecurity regulations for local elections, because those federal regulations may :<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Add an unnecessary layer of bureaucratic oversight<\/li>\n<li>Would centralize an inherently local &#8212; and decentralized &#8212; system<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What did DHS do to trigger these concerns? <\/strong>Declared elections to be critical infrastructure, which triggers additional protections and resources from the federal government.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.governing.com\/topics\/elections\/gov-dhs-elections-infrastructure.html?utm_term=New%20Election%20Cyberprotections%20Cause%20Confusion%20and%20Concern&amp;utm_campaign=New%20Election%20Cyberprotections%20Cause%20Confusion%20and%20Concern&amp;utm_content=email&amp;utm_source=Act-On+Software&amp;utm_medium=email\">Governing |\u00a0New Election Cyberprotections Cause Confusion and Concern<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Local governments are concerned about federal DHS cybersecurity regulations for local elections, because those federal regulations may :<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Add an unnecessary layer of bureaucratic oversight<\/li>\n<li>Would centralize an inherently local &#8212; and decentralized &#8212; system<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What did DHS do to trigger these concerns? <\/strong>Declared elections to be critical infrastructure, which triggers additional protections and resources from the federal government.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.governing.com\/topics\/elections\/gov-dhs-elections-infrastructure.html?utm_term=New%20Election%20Cyberprotections%20Cause%20Confusion%20and%20Concern&amp;utm_campaign=New%20Election%20Cyberprotections%20Cause%20Confusion%20and%20Concern&amp;utm_content=email&amp;utm_source=Act-On+Software&amp;utm_medium=email\">Governing |\u00a0New Election Cyberprotections Cause Confusion and&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election-data-breach","category-regulatory-trend","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619","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=619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}