“Democracy’s Biggest Year: The Fight for Secure Elections Around the World” – That’s the keynote topic of the Black Hat 2024 cybersecurity conference in Las Vegas.
And the big guns are taking the lead.
CISA Director Jen Easterly, the COO of the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA), the CEO of the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), and a prominent Associated Press reporter tackle the subject in the keynote panel.
Malign foreign influence against (or from within) electronic voting systems in the USA and worldwide? These experts don’t think so.
“2024 is the year for global democracy,” a Black Hat summary says. “The year when a record-breaking number of countries held national elections; when more than two billion voters cast ballots to shape the future of their nation and the world. In the foreground of this monumental moment, emerging technologies and heightened global tensions confront the resilience of even the world’s longest standing democracies. This session will unpack how key international leaders are approaching election security risks to the democratic processes – such as cyber threats, foreign malign influence, and the role of generative AI – and ensure that 2024 is no anomaly, but an inflection point.”
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1. Doesn’t the analysis made by these experts seem superficial and even naïve, dismissing the possible threats coming from malign foreign influences through the electoral systems used in the US and around the world?
2. Isn’t it contradictory that precisely CISA, with access to the various reports and warnings about the vulnerabilities of the electronic voting systems used in the U.S. elections, continues to consider the foreign voting system companies harmless despite their refusal to open their source codes for auditing?
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