As this takes place, there is an ongoing debate over the cyber security threat Huawei may pose to the world’s future 5G network and privacy, and a potential escalation of cyber offensive operations between the United States and Russia, as recent reports indicate the former Soviet nation’s power grid has been infiltrated by U.S. forces. But it goes beyond our hard infrastructure; it’s also our democracy infrastructure, where in recent weeks we’ve seen the rise of deepfakes and cheapfakes, election hacking and engineering, and the risk of foreign entities unduly influencing democratic elections around the world.
All of these issues and occurrences highlight that America has yet to properly deal with the vulnerabilities within its electoral process. The country has not created a comprehensive cyber plan across the multiple organizations affected by these problems. And the issues persist while our electoral process remains susceptible to attack.
The Mueller investigation disclosed intrusions into the county election systems of two Floridian municipalities. Further, the FBI believes the operation allowed foreign operatives to go further and breach the government system of at least one of the counties. Florida has begun to take corrective measures to address this situation that, against the backdrop of the aforementioned challenges we face, seems almost Kafkaesque.
Governor DeSantis announced that an investment of an additional $2 million in unspent federal grant fund will be used to address the cyber shor ..
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