DHS considers adding election system as critical cyber infrastructure
From: FederalNewsRadio.com | 1500 AM
The Homeland Security Department is actively considering whether it should add the nation’s election system — or the individual systems that 9,000 local and state jurisdictions use to collect, tally and report votes — as an entity that needs DHS protection from cybersecurity attacks.
“We should carefully consider whether our election system, our election process, is critical infrastructure, like the financial sector, like the power grid,” DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson said during an Aug. 3 breakfast with reporters hosted by the Christian Science Monitor. “There is a vital national interest in our election process, so I do think we need to consider whether it should be considered by my department and others as critical infrastructure.”
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