{"id":964,"date":"2018-05-16T22:40:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-16T22:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/2018\/05\/16\/5-points-texas-cyber-security-experts-tell-texas-what-to-do\/"},"modified":"2018-05-16T22:40:00","modified_gmt":"2018-05-16T22:40:00","slug":"5-points-texas-cyber-security-experts-tell-texas-what-to-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/5-points-texas-cyber-security-experts-tell-texas-what-to-do\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Points. Texas Cyber Security Experts Tell Texas What to Do."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Which\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cs.rice.edu\/~dwallach\/voting-experts-letter-may-2018.pdf\">Texas cybersecurity experts signed this letter<\/a>\u00a0to the Texas Secretary of State?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Scott Aaronson, Professor, University of Texas at Austin<\/li>\n<li>Chris Bronk, Assistant Professor, University of Houston<\/li>\n<li>Alvaro Cardenas, Assistant Professor, University of Texas at Dallas<\/li>\n<li>Guofei Gu, Associate Professor, Texas A&amp;M<\/li>\n<li>Murat Kantarcioglu, Professor, University of Texas at Dallas<\/li>\n<li>Jiang Ming, Assistant Professor, University of Texas at Arlington<\/li>\n<li>Dan S. Wallach, Professor, Rice University<\/li>\n<li>Brent Waters, Associate Professor, University of Texas at Austin<\/li>\n<li>Greg White, Professor, University of Texas at San Antonio<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What 4 priorities did the cybersecurity experts identify?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>updated election security standards and accountability mechanisms\n<ul>\n<li>legislative action<\/li>\n<li>key phrase: ensure consistent cyber-hygiene<\/li>\n<li>require election officials to undergo cybersecurity training<\/li>\n<li>no electronic overseas voting<\/li>\n<li>Legislature should give the Secretary of State authority to\u00a0oversee the safeguards of all elections in Texas<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>auditable paper trails\n<ul>\n<li>all counties<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>mandatory post-election audits\n<ul>\n<li>clear rules for the methodology and size of the audits<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>secure voter registration systems\n<ul>\n<li>prepare for disasters by ensuring that voter database servers are capable of both local and offsite failover<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What 3\u00a0things should the required Study of Texas Election Systems Include?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0investigation of vulnerabilities and risks for a cyber attack against Texas\u2019s voting and voting registration systems<\/li>\n<li>information on any attempted cyber attack on these systems<\/li>\n<li>recommendations for protecting a county\u2019s voting system machines and list of registered voters from a cyber attack<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Which\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cs.rice.edu\/~dwallach\/voting-experts-letter-may-2018.pdf\">Texas cybersecurity experts signed this letter<\/a>\u00a0to the Texas Secretary of State?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Scott Aaronson, Professor, University of Texas at Austin<\/li>\n<li>Chris Bronk, Assistant Professor, University of Houston<\/li>\n<li>Alvaro Cardenas, Assistant Professor, University of Texas at Dallas<\/li>\n<li>Guofei Gu, Associate Professor, Texas A&amp;M<\/li>\n<li>Murat Kantarcioglu, Professor, University of Texas at Dallas<\/li>\n<li>Jiang Ming, Assistant Professor, University of Texas at Arlington<\/li>\n<li>Dan S. Wallach, Professor, Rice University<\/li>\n<li>Brent\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":[36,3,21,18,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election-data-breach","category-legislative-trend","category-local-government","category-regulatory-enforcement","category-regulatory-trend","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964","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=964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}