{"id":772,"date":"2017-08-14T20:59:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-14T20:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/2017\/08\/14\/election-vendors-cybersecurity-anatomy-of-a-hack-and-3-contracting-takeaways\/"},"modified":"2017-08-14T20:59:00","modified_gmt":"2017-08-14T20:59:00","slug":"election-vendors-cybersecurity-anatomy-of-a-hack-and-3-contracting-takeaways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/election-vendors-cybersecurity-anatomy-of-a-hack-and-3-contracting-takeaways\/","title":{"rendered":"Election Vendors. Cybersecurity. Anatomy of a Hack and 3 Contracting Takeaways."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>North Carolina&#8217;s electronic voting system in 2016 was hacked. The way hackers got in was through the company that provided the poll book- the electronic data that allows voting personnel to verify voters.<\/p>\n<p>What changes we will we see to election procurement:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>contracts will contain and require higher data security standards<\/li>\n<li>vendors may be audited for data security purposes<\/li>\n<li>election workers will be equiped to switch to paper ballots, if during voting, it is discovered that election data is compromised<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2017\/08\/10\/542634370\/russian-cyberattack-targeted-elections-vendor-tied-to-voting-day-disruptions\">NPR |\u00a0Russian Cyberattack Targeted Elections Vendor Tied To Voting Day Disruptions<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Carolina&#8217;s electronic voting system in 2016 was hacked. The way hackers got in was through the company that provided the poll book- the electronic data that allows voting personnel to verify voters.<\/p>\n<p>What changes we will we see to election procurement:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>contracts will contain and require higher data security standards<\/li>\n<li>vendors may be audited for data security purposes<\/li>\n<li>election workers will be equiped to switch to paper ballots, if during voting, it is discovered that election data is\u2026<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,36,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2019-legislative-issue","category-election-data-breach","category-local-government","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772","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=772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}