The US government's main cybersecurity watchdog struggles to reach some of the country's more than 3,000 counties to offer free cybersecurity tools ahead of the election.
Orange County, California, is one of the places that has embraced the agency’s efforts.
Reasons why federal tools aren’t more widely adopted vary, but they largely center around resources, Rita Reynolds, the chief technology officer of the National Association of Counties, said. Even if a cybersecurity tool is free, someone still needs to set it up. As an example of what could go wrong on Election Day, the agency cites the possibility that a small county could get infected with ransomware, locking up its computers and hampering its ability to submit election results or update its website to direct voters who need polling place updates. Even if the county used provisional ballots for anyone who couldn’t check in and delivered its vote count in person, the perception that the election had been “hacked” could persist.
Ransomware gangs often scan the internet looking for networks that haven’t recently updated their systems. Small government networks make “attractive targets because they garner a lot of press,” he said.
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