The Cybersecurity 202: DHS will run a war room for a week or more to protect November election - The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/08/27/cybersecurity-202-dhs-will-run-war-room-week-or-more-protect-november-election/

DHS ran a war room on the night of the 2018 midterms where election and campaign officials, social media companies and voting-machine vendors compared notes about possible cyberattacks and disinformation campaigns.

In November, that same war room could be in operation for a week or longer as officials ward off attacks aimed at undermining early voting, counting late-arriving mail ballots and knocking back phony rumors that try to erode faith in the election’s outcome.

It will include in-person meetings in Washington to hash through classified and unclassified information and an online “situational awareness room” open to election officials across the nation.

“That will remain in place, frankly, until the election community says, 'Okay, you can stand down now. We're in good shape,' " a senior official at DHS’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said.

CISA is already running a 24/7 operation monitoring election offices across the country for hacking threats through a network of hundreds of digital sensors, said the official who spoke to reporters on condition of anonymity.

The agency will shift to an “enhanced readiness posture” during the last 45 days before the election, ramping up how often it shares information with agencies across the government. It will also begin offering biweekly threat briefings to election officials then.

“The reality is, it’s not about Election Day anymore. It’s about an election time period and understanding what takes place over that [whole] time period,” the official said.

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