The Democratic National Committee’s (DNC) cybersecurity fortifications still trail that of its Republican colleagues despite improvements in the organization’s practices since Russian hackers infiltrated its network in 2015 and 2016, a new report said.
“Key tactics demonstrated during the 2016 U.S. elections proved that once an attack is executed, political parties and candidates lack a solid incident response plan to remediate and respond to the attack,” SecurityScorecard’s newly released Analysis of Cyber Risk Exposure for U.S. and European Political Parties, said. Despite upgrades in the DNC’s cybersecurity practices, the “organizational behavior at managing digital assets still lags behind the [Republican National Committee],” the report reads.
This is not good news. SecurityScorecard, which compared the cybersecurity frameworks of four political parties in the U.S. and 25 in 10 European countries, pointed to the DNC’s similarly inadequate protections ahead of the 2016 Presidential elections, the reported hacks and the WikiLeaks disclosures. With the 2020 elections only 18 months away, the specter of foreign meddling grows…
