A nonprofit co-founded by former campaign managers for Hillary Clinton and Mitt Romney officially launched this week to provide free or low-cost security technology and services to federal election campaigns.
Defending Digital Campaigns (DDC) basically acts as an intermediary to negotiate software licenses and service contracts from security vendors and providers and to ensure the tools are properly installed and used.
DDC initially is offering registered political party committees and federal candidates email security services from Agari, anti-phishing services from Area 1 Security, online IT security training from Cybrary, security behavior change services from Elevate Security, managed security services from GRA Quantum, mobile endpoint security software from Lookout, and end-to-end encrypted messaging services from Wickr.
Michael Kaiser, DDC's president and CEO, says the nonprofit will package some of the security services for election organizations. "We will also create groups of products specifically for campaigns," he says.
Election security overall has been a hot button topic in the wake of Russia's election-meddling and hacking voter rolls during the 2016 presidential election cycle, as well as subsequent research demonstrating major security holes in voting systems and equipment. Security experts say Web-based election systems are the most likely and easiest targets for attack during the elections: Election-reporting websites, voter roll websites, and candidate websites all are at risk of disruption via distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, as well as hacking and data-tampering by nation-state or other attackers.
It's easier for an attacker to remotely penetrate a public-facing website to DDoS it, deface it, alter information (such as changing vote count data or ..
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