Election cybersecurity: Protecting the ballot box and building trust in election integrity

This article surveys the 2024 election cybersecurity landscape, noting that while decentralized, diverse voting systems and established safeguards reduce the risk of large-scale vote manipulation, significant threats remain, including ransomware, phishing, and DDoS targeting registration systems and information access; it recommends best practices such as penetration testing, patching, MFA, segmentation, and cloud-based DDoS protections, and ultimately underscores that disinformation and hack-and-leak operations pose the greatest risk to election integrity and public trust.