Spotlight Podcast: Taking a Risk-Based Approach to Election Security

This transcript of a Security Ledger Spotlight podcast features cybersecurity experts Robert Carey and Sam Curry discussing election security for the 2020 U.S. presidential election. They highlight risks from targeted disinformation campaigns and process vulnerabilities introduced by COVID-driven changes (mail-in ballots, altered polling locations), recommend a risk-based focus on critical precincts and systems, emphasize practice and contingency planning, and note the difficulty of making major procedural changes close to an election.