Researchers with Area 1 Security have published findings in “Phishing Election Administrators” assessing the depth of email security controls used by more than 10,000 U.S. state and local election administrators. Among key findings: The majority of state and local election administrators have only rudimentary or non-standard technologies to protect themselves from phishing; less than 3 out of 10 have basic controls to prevent phishing, and fewer than 2 out of 10 have implemented advanced anti-phishing cybersecurity controls.
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Organizations can have a great set of tools, but if the recipients aren’t checking who their senders are, those tools can easily be rendered useless.
It is hard for under-funded counties to run their own email server and services – I recommend they not use a bespoke infrastructure because it requires administrators to be on point, 100 percent of the times, 365 days a year. Most counties don’t have that level of staffing budget. We’ve seen the same thing with nonprofits as with public sectors – they want to use their own infrastructure but they just don’t have the funds or the tools to be sure they’re on top of everything.
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