The latest news on this front comes from a really interesting article by Maggie Miller in The Hill. Take a look at this excerpt:
Google announced Tuesday it is expanding its efforts around election security by providing free training to state and federal campaigns in all 50 states.
The company detailed the effort in a blog post, saying it will involve supporting nonpartisan virtual cybersecurity trainings for state and federal campaigns across the country and deploying a digital “help desk” to answer security-related questions for campaigns.
The new effort marks an expansion of Google’s work with the non-profit group Defending Digital Campaigns (DDC), which provides free or low-cost security services to campaigns to help defend against malicious hackers.
Read the full article here.
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