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Election Cyber Security: Securing Elections Against Cyber Threats

Improve your cyber defenses against election security threats with an ongoing and holistic program with world-class information, protection and threat response.

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Framing the Threat

Elections provide the prime opportunity for nation states, cyber criminals and bad actors to launch attacks that create chaos and harm federal, state and local government.

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Cyber espionage against key participants

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Attacks on critical election infrastructure

Target

Influence activity to alter
public opinion

How Mandiant is Addressing the Challenge

Every election cycle provides an opportunity for governments of all sizes to improve their ability to prepare for cyber threats. An ongoing and holistic election security program helps organizations be better informed, protected and able to respond to the latest cyber threats.

Mandiant offers a unique combination of expertise across threat intelligence, services and solutions to empower customers to continually evolve to defend themselves against election threats.

ELECTION CYBER THREATS

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Data integrity and destruction

Computer Ransomware

             Ransomware            

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          Insider threats          

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Information
Operations (IO)

Threat Intelligence

Mandiant Election Security Services

Mandiant Advantage Threat Intelligence helps identify Information Operations (IO) activity when there are attempts to influence or interfere with elections and can include cyber espionage, crime that affects infrastructure, information operations, and attacks on critical infrastructure. It also offers access to 24X7 monitoring for threats, vulnerabilities and operational risk.

Digital Risk Protection from Mandiant gives organizations visibility into their global attack surface and dark web activity, enabling them to neutralize threat actor campaigns before they impact the business. Mandiant can now provide a broad digital risk protection solution either via stand-alone self-managed SaaS products or via a comprehensive service.

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How to prepare, harden and test before an election event

Organizations should test controls and operations before an election event. To help them get prepared, Mandiant offers Incident Response Services and Retainers and compromise assessment services.

Mandiant Advantage Attack Surface Management generates a comprehensive view of an entire organization’s attack surface to fully map the entire environment and have visibility to all potential threats.

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How to maintain election security during the event

Organizations need to continuously validate and defend all their security controls during an election event. In addition to using tools put in place before the event, organizations can conduct red team and purple team exercises, test defenses with Mandiant Advantage Security Validation and hunt and monitor activity with Mandiant Advantage Managed Defense.

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How to respond, contain and remediate a security threat

Having the ability to quickly respond to an incident is an important way to help ensure election continuity. Mandiant Incident Response Retainer with onsite surge capabilities enable an organization to call upon Mandiant experts to contain the alert and provide recovery, restoration and follow up actions to help maintain election security.

Threat Trends: Securing the Vote in 2022

In the latest Threat Trends episode of The Defender’s Advantage Podcast, Mandiant’s Jon Ford and Stacy O’Mara join host Luke McNamara for a conversation on election security. They discuss how organizations involved in the process of elections should think of cyber security in the lead up to these events, preparedness steps they have seen states take, and the evolution of the federal approach in the United States. Jon and Stacy also discuss some of the federal resources states and local entities can leverage for preparation going into the 2022 midterm elections and the 2024 general election in the U.S.

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Blog

What To Expect When You’re Electing: Preparing for Cyber Threats to the 2022 US Midterm Elections.

REPORT

SECURING THE VOTE

White Paper

A Phased Approach to Election Security and Checklist for Officials

Resource Center

Threat Analysis: Crisis Resource Center

Services

Mandiant Services

EBOOK

Election Security: Cyber Threat Activity Targeting Elections

Webinar

Tap Into DHS Cyber Grants Funding to Strengthen State & Local Infrastructure

Webinar

Defending Against Cyber Threats with the Whole World Watching

Solution Brief

Digital Risk Protection