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Cyber

CISA Partners With Non-Profit That Offers Election Auditing Tool

By Cal Biesecker

Thursday, November 21st, 2019

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CISA Partners With Non-Profit That Offers Election Auditing Tool

Christopher Krebs, former director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency at DHS. Photo: DHS

The Department of Homeland Security Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is investing in an election security auditing tool to help support the integrity of the 2020 presidential and congressional elections, the agency said on Thursday. Since joining DHS in 2017, CISA Director Christopher Krebs has been advocating for state and local election officials to ensure election results in their respective jurisdictions are auditable, typically with paper backup ballots. The concern that if votes are cast electronically with no paper…

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