The Cybersecurity 202: DNC security chief preaches basic security for 2020 campaigns
The headquarters of the Democratic National Committee in Washington on Aug. 22, 2018. The head of security for the Democratic National Committee says that cybersecurity is far too complicated right now, posing a big risk to the bevy of candidates headed into 2020 who are trying to secure their campaigns.
Lord previously held top cybersecurity posts at Twitter and Yahoo — the latter where he was hired after the company sufferedand tasked him with fixing the damage and rebuilding Yahoo’s core security. They include fundamental security red lights such as employing weak or reused passwords and not using a second factor, such as an SMS pin number, to verify people’s identities on email and social media sites.
As if that wasn’t enough of a challenge, campaigns also are prime targets for everyone from hacktivists to Russian and Chinese intelligence agencies.in September detailing how campaigns can do everything from securely using Facebook and Twitter to encrypting laptops so their data can’t be accessed if they’re lost or stolen.
I want to make sure that Americans — whose information is in the custody of an entity they may not even know anything about — don’t have to wait for there to be a breach before companies start doing what they should responsibly do.”from the subcommittee concluded that Equifax's response to a vulnerability that ultimately caused the 2017 data breach “was inadequate and hampered by [its] neglect of cybersecurity.
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