https://www.nextgov.com/cybersecurity/2018/10/security-clearances-wont-get-way-responding-election-cyber-threats-officials-say/151773/
By Joseph Marks,
Senior Correspondent
OCTOBER 3, 2018
A lack of security clearances among some state and local election
officials shouldn’t hinder the Homeland Security Department from
responding speedily to Election Day cybersecurity threats, the
department’s top cyber official said Wednesday.
Even if state and local election officials don’t have the necessary
authorizations to view a particular piece of threat information, Homeland
Security Undersecretary Chris Krebs said he’s confident those officials
will start trying to mitigate the threat if he asks them to.
“I’m confident that if I had a piece of information right now …I could
say: ‘Look, I’ve got something you need to see. You need to take action.
It’s going to take me a day or two to get you the information, but, in the
meantime, you need to take action,” Krebs during an election readiness
summit hosted by the Election Assistance Commission.
“We have trust established so there would be at least the beginning of an
article of faith that they would do something,” he said.
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