Congressional lawmakers want the Department of Homeland Security to make a special cyber resolution in the new year – to prevent future disruption from hackers and to increase cooperation between states and the federal government on cyber threats.
Bipartisan members of the U.S. Senate wrote a letter to recently confirmed DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, urging her to make election cybersecurity a priority. The DHS let 21 states know in September 2017 that Russian hackers attempted to infiltrate their voting systems.
Erin Ayers, Congress urges DHS to focus on election cybersecurity (December 21, 2017), available with subscription at Advisen Cyber Front Page News.
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