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Ahead Of Midterms, DHS Ramped Up Sensor Coverage For Election Security

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Ahead Of Midterms, DHS Ramped Up Sensor Coverage For Election Security
Christopher Krebs, former director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency at DHS. Photo: DHS

Between the 2016 presidential election and the 2018 congressional midterm elections, the Department of Homeland Security boosted the number of sensors it deployed to state and local election networks to help detect unwanted intrusions, the department’s senior cyber security official told a House panel. Before the 2016 election, intrusion detection sensors were given to election infrastructures that provided less than 30 percent coverage overall but, by the 2018 elections, coverage topped 90 percent, Christopher Krebs, director of the Cybersecurity and…

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