{"id":874,"date":"2018-01-16T22:46:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-16T22:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/2018\/01\/16\/anatomy-of-a-election-cyber-security-agency-3-goals-of-the-agency\/"},"modified":"2018-01-16T22:46:00","modified_gmt":"2018-01-16T22:46:00","slug":"anatomy-of-a-election-cyber-security-agency-3-goals-of-the-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/anatomy-of-a-election-cyber-security-agency-3-goals-of-the-agency\/","title":{"rendered":"Anatomy of a Election Cyber Security Agency. 3 Goals of the Agency."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Prime Miniter of Sweden announced the immediate formation of an agency\u00a0charged with protecting the integrity of Seden&#8217;s elections.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The new agency will be cahrged with:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;psychological defence\u00a0by identifying, analysing, and responding\u00a0to external influence\u00a0campaigns&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>will not hesitate to expose those who meddle in Swedish elections<\/li>\n<li>in coordination with the agency,\u00a0there will be increased funding for Swedish intelligence and cyber-defence services to monitor external threats<\/li>\n<li>the agency will work with each parties&#8217; officials to secure the election<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Why does this matter? &#8220;A\u00a0US report noted that Nordic states (Sweden) were &#8220;a favourite target of the Kremlin&#8217;s propaganda machine&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/euobserver.com\/foreign\/140542\">EU Observer |\u00a0Sweden raises alarm on election meddling<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Prime Miniter of Sweden announced the immediate formation of an agency\u00a0charged with protecting the integrity of Seden&#8217;s elections.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The new agency will be cahrged with:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;psychological defence\u00a0by identifying, analysing, and responding\u00a0to external influence\u00a0campaigns&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>will not hesitate to expose those who meddle in Swedish elections<\/li>\n<li>in coordination with the agency,\u00a0there will be increased funding for Swedish intelligence and cyber-defence services to monitor external threats<\/li>\n<li>the agency\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":[30,42,36,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2017-legislative-issue","category-2019-legislative-issue","category-election-data-breach","category-regulatory-trend","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874","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=874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}