CISA, FBI alert provides details on election system resilience against potential ransomware attacks

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the FBI have released a public service announcement on how state and local governments are safeguarding election systems against potential ransomware attacks to prevent impacting the integrity of voting results in November.

“Ransomware affecting state or local government systems could render certain election related functions temporarily inaccessible and cause election officials to revert to back-up processes and systems. While this could impact the speed of certain processes, it would not impact the security...