Department of Homeland Security officials held a series of meetings last week as part of an effort to improve engagement on defending election infrastructure from cyber threats ahead of the 2018 midterms, including formally establishing a new private sector information sharing council. Kirstjen Nielsen, DHS secretary, led four days of briefings and discussions with election officials and private sector partners to detail new classified information on potential threats and ways to meet new cyber resiliency capabilities, following Russia’s attempts to…
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