Black Hat USA 2024: All eyes on election security

Black Hat USA 2024 highlighted election security amid a major global voting year, with leaders from ENISA, CISA, and the UK NCSC stressing that while direct manipulation of election infrastructure is highly unlikely, disruption (e.g., DDoS) and misinformation remain key threats; the recent non-malicious CrowdStrike outage was cited as a real-world stress test that adversaries could study for impact and recovery insights. Another session presented a comparative study of national cybersecurity strategies across 12 countries using a 67-point rubric, identifying leaders like Australia and Singapore, mixed performance for the UK and USA, and lagging areas for Germany and Japan, reinforcing the need for accountability in translating policy into practice.