MSSPs Combat Election Cybersecurity Threats

April 30, 2024 – Published on MSSP Alert

With the upcoming U.S. election season, MSSPs, MSPs and other cybersecurity providers will be called upon to maintain (and restore) election security while helping stop the spread of misinformation and protect candidates from attacks on their websites and other forms of campaign communications.

Gary Brickhouse, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) of GuidePoint Security, said services typically provided by MSSPs and MSPs will be important during the 2024 election cycle.

“The work performed by these groups can help mitigate an outside disinformation campaign by their ability to provide accurate information to the overall security posture of the election data and systems, especially the integrity of the data being processed by the election office,” he said.

Brickhouse explained that these services include proactive activities such as firewall management, email security, vulnerability management, and continuous monitoring and threat detection to hunt for cybersecurity events in real-time. They may also provide other system services to improve resiliency in the event of an incident, such as implementing a data backup strategy by enabling the election office to more quickly recover in the event of an incident or outage.

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