On Election Day, somewhere in America, someone may accidentally hit a polling place with their car, or an election worker may innocently unplug a voting machine when plugging in a microwave to heat up their lunch. These are the kinds of inadvertent mistakes that commonly get reported in the news, often without enough context, which can increase public distrust in the electoral process and infrastructure. Meanwhile, there are real threats to digital and physical election operations this year, and news audiences need to know about them.
Join Cait Conley, Senior Advisor to the Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) for a practical briefing on known and potential threats to the 2024 elections, how election stakeholders are mitigating those threats, and advice on how journalists can prepare to report on them.
Attendees will learn about:
– the landscape of threats to the 2024 U.S. elections.
– what those threats mean practically to the security or integrity of the elections process.
– what election officials, vendors and the federal government are doing to protect the security and resilience of the U.S. election infrastructure.