After the events of the past few years, security is in the forefront of election officials’ minds. The individual states are responsible for conducting elections, so the National Association of Counties (NACo) at its annual legislative conference just conducted a series of workshops and panels on the range of threats facing election workers and voters alike. While physical threats, intimidation and harassment are primary concerns, there...

Effective immediately, the Department of Homeland Security Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (DHS CISA) issued new TIC 3.0 guidance allowing agencies to roll out zero trust direct-to-cloud connections through cloud service providers (CSPs) that meet CISA guidelines. This new guidance helps agencies avoid the challenges of VPN, which include infrastructure exposure and highly latent traffic paths due to traffic being forced to tr...