During a press conference at the @NCCICgov today, @SecNielsen challenged all states and localities to have totally audit-able vote trails by the 2020 election. 1/X
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Per Nielsen, the Election-ISAC (info sharing and security center) has over 1,000 members now, the fastest growing ISAC in history. It was just stood up last year in response to DHS naming election infrastructure "critical infrastructure.
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By Election Day 2018 more than 90% of voters will be voting in places with advanced cyber protections with the DHS seal of approval, Nielsen says.
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Nielsen referred most DNC attempted hacking questions to the FBI. Wouldn't say if the scale of attacks vs. political actors and institutions is rising. Reiterated that scale and scope of Russian efforts to undermine '18 remain lower than '16 but that could change any moment.
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A DHS official also went into detail about how the
@NCCICgov creates unclassified versions of threat indicators provided by intel agencies and law enforcement.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likesShow this thread -
The NCCIC basically goes back and forth with the originating agency until they get approval for the unclass version. This process has become a lot faster in recent years, the official said.
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It's also much more rare that an agency refuses any unclass version but it still happens sometimes, the official said.
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Replying to @Joseph_Marks_
this was a good Q asked by a well-dressed professional reporter
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Replying to @dnvolz
And followed up by an old fashioned newshound who's taller than average with a winning smile.
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