Cyber security has been at the center stage during the U.S. primaries and general elections this year. Without diving any further, several U.S. agencies were in the mix to investigate many high profile figures and defend the U.S. against foreign state sponsored attacks. One of the controversies that got a lot of people’s attention was that Russia allegedly trying to interfere to influence the U.S.’ presidential election outcome this year.
Several major media outlets published stories warning local states such as North Carolina, Florida, and so forth to cautiously ensure proper technology tools to prevent foreign hackers from manipulating their system to possibly change elections’ outcomes. In fact, things got escalated to a higher level as the U.S. formally accuses Russia of trying to infiltrate the Democratic Party organizations ahead of the Nov. 8 presidential election. Today, Reuters’ Mark Hosenball, Dustin Volz and Jonathan Landay write “U.S. formally accuses Russian hackers of political cyber attacks,” amidst everything else already going on regarding emails and hacking. It comes to a point where cyber security should finally be regarded through the lens of serious concerns and not taking lightly as previously.
You may read the full article via http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-cyber-russia-idUSKCN12729B.
Hello Mauchel/class- this is one of the biggest fears for any country in the year of elections, not only the US.
As we hear more about evidence that Russia has the capabilities of potentially temper a presidential decision, we as nation should prioritize resources to stop that from happening. Our democracy and privilege to elect a president should not be compromised by a foreign country or their government, specially in a malicious manner as hacking into a political party to shift things out.
I couldn’t agree more, but after watching the presidential debate the other night where cybersecurity was not even brought up, it concerns me that our government is not doing enough to protect its nation or citizens from cyber attacks. Yes, President Obama has made some strives in budgeting to increase the US Cybersecurity posture, but I don’t think it is being implemented fast enough.
Yes they are attempting to make strides and President Obama signed a bill to update the systems of the government, but it seems like it has been happening too much while he has been in office. The next President needs to make this a top priority protecting the confidential information of the citizens of the United States.