Former Facebook exec Stamos discusses challenges to election infrastructure security

The most consequential threats to election security -- attacks against the infrastructure -- should be the simplest to address but remain ensnared in partisan politics, according to Alex Stamos, coauthor of a new report out of Stanford University and the former chief security officer for Facebook.

“It seems to me that protecting the infrastructure should be the least political issue, and I think it’s the most consequential,” Stamos, director of the Stanford Cyber Policy Center’s Internet Observatory, told Inside Cybersecurity....