In the upcoming election on November 8th neither Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump have presented their cybersecurity initiative for their administration. When asked during the first debate regarding cybersecurity the candidates shifted blame to Russia and China and that they were responsible for the most recent attacks. Shifting blame to other countries and not addressing the real issues behind cybersecurity can effect the overall security of our country. Attacks on election systems can effect how the next presidential election will be played out. Russian hackers have already been found to hack into power grids in Ukraine disabling power to over 1.4 million people for over 6 hours. This is a concern for our critical infrastructure in the US. With our GDP relying almost 100% on information technology the next president needs to have policies in place to prevent catastrophic hacks from happening in the future.
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It’s funny that I had the same impression as the author of this article. The topic was indeed brought up during the first presidential debate but both candidates could not answer it with a straight face. There were no strategy to combat or protect the US from cybersecurity attacks. We know that the threat is real, yet neither candidates were willing to address the problem head on.
Yeah but I still feel recognizing the cyber security hacks as national security challenge is very important.
This actually proves that information security is gaining importance in coming times that it even needs to be a part of political strategy for the competitors and I think in coming time this could be a very important factor to be seen in other elections all over the world.A lot of people are getting victim to the hackers and cyber threats online and they look upon creation of a safe IT environment