Security Clearances Won’t Get in the Way of Responding to Election Cyber Threats, Officials Say

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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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