How does CISA and the intelligence community protect American elections? With Dan Sutherland

Dan Sutherland, Chief Counsel of the Cyber Infrastructure Security Agency discusses the challenges of supporting election security across the US and just what steps the government takes to safeguard the vote.

This episode references:

CISA Resources for Lawyers

https://www.cisa.gov/resources-lawyers

CISA Cyber Summit

https://www.cisa.gov/live

CISA Election Security Page

https://www.cisa.gov/protect2020

CISA Election Security Resource Library

https://www.cisa.gov/election-security-library

Stanford-MIT Healthy Elections Project

https://healthyelections.org/

Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Report on Russian Active Measures Campaigns and Interference in the 2016 U.S. Election (Volumes 1-5)

https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/publications/report-select-committee-intelligence-united-states-senate-russian-active-measures

Elections Infrastructure Information Sharing and Analysis Center (EI-ISAC)

https://www.cisecurity.org/ei-isac/

National Association of Secretaries of State #TrustedInfo2020

https://www.nass.org/initiatives/trustedinfo-2020

CISA Election Disinformation Toolkit [PDF]

https://www.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/publications/election-disinformation-toolkit_508.pdf

Help America Vote Act of 2002

https://www.eac.gov/sites/default/files/eac_assets/1/6/HAVA41.PDF

Help America Vote Act Appropriations

https://www.eac.gov/payments-and-grants/election-security-funds

Election Grants under the 2020 CARES Act

https://www.eac.gov/payments-and-grants/2020-cares-act-grants

NASS Issue Briefing on State Spending of Election Security Grant Funds [PDF]

https://www.nass.org/sites/default/files/Election%20Cybersecurity/issue-brief-HAVA-spending-april-2020_.pdf

Center for Tech and Civic Life

https://www.techandciviclife.org/

Poll Worker, Esq.

https://www.americanbar.org/groups/public_interest/election_law/poll-worker-esq/

Safeguarding Your Vote: A Joint Message on Election Security [Video]

https://youtu.be/GhQjRtVi9pQ

Committee on House Administration Election Security Update: Top 18 Most Vulnerable States, July 2018

https://cha.house.gov/sites/democrats.cha.house.gov/files/Election_Security_Update_v5.pdf

Dan Sutherland is the Chief Counsel for the Cyber and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)

https://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/administrative/law_national_security/dsutherlandbio-20.pdf