Strong Elections Are Cyber STRONG…Are You?
With real and persistent cyber threats to the election community, securing your elections has never been more important.
Becoming Cyber STRONG
Cybersecurity is everyone’s responsibility. At the EI-ISAC, we believe the security of the entire election community is better when we work together. Our role is to support the entire community with tools and best practices to help keep our elections Cyber STRONG. By taking the following decisive actions, you can make huge strides toward securing the election process in your jurisdiction, continuing the important work you're already doing to instill public confidence in the election process.
Stay connected with the larger election community.
Action: Sign up to become a member of the Elections Infrastructure Information Sharing and Analysis Center (EI-ISAC).
Level of Effort: 10 minutes
Benefit: The EI-ISAC has a community of 3,000+ election offices that actively meet and help you stay up-to-date on the latest election-focused threats. Members get instant access to no-cost cybersecurity tools and election-specific cyber threat intelligence.
Stay connected with the larger election community.
Action: Sign up to become a member of the Elections Infrastructure Information Sharing and Analysis Center (EI-ISAC).
Level of Effort: 10 minutes
Benefit: The EI-ISAC has a community of 3,000+ election offices that actively meet and help you stay up-to-date on the latest election-focused threats. Members get instant access to no-cost cybersecurity tools and election-specific cyber threat intelligence.
Train your employees, including seasonal employees, on recognizing and reporting phishing emails, insider threats, and other malicious activity.
Action: Implement phishing and insider threat training for all employees, regularly run phishing exercises, and retrain as necessary.
Level of Effort: 1 hour to start, 15 minutes/month
Benefit: Reduce the risk of your election office becoming a victim of phishing attacks, swatting, insider threats, and more.
Proactively block harmful network traffic.
Action: Sign up for our no-cost web security solution, Malicious Domain Blocking & Reporting (MDBR). Get device-level cyber defense. Enroll your workstations and servers in our no-cost Endpoint Detection & Response (EDR) service. Contact [email protected] for more information.
Level of Effort: As little as 15 minutes
Benefit: Reduce the risk of malware and ransomware incidents at no cost.
Take ownership of your environment by proactively addressing threats.
Action: Enroll in VDP
Level of Effort: As little as one hour
Benefit: Mitigate risk of cyber attack before the attack happens.
Learn about best practices in election security.
Action: The Essential Guide to Election Security is your first-stop resource for election officials to build a program designed to meet individual needs and abilities of any given election office.
The Election Technology Procurements Guide helps election officials ensure security is accounted for in their election technology procurements.
Level of Effort: As little as one hour
Benefit: Assess your cyber maturity and develop a cyber improvement plan.
Raise awareness in your community.
Action: Educate voters, candidates, and local media about threats to be on the lookout for.
Level of Effort: Ongoing
Benefit: Raise public confidence in elections in your jurisdiction.
