Election cybersecurity

As we rely more on technology within our global systems, cyber threats to democracy have become a top priority for government agencies, elected officials, and election campaigns. With Mandiant, secure elections against cyber threats with an ongoing and holistic program of world-class information, protection, and threat response.

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Framing the threat

The complexity of elections and their technology make them a prime opportunity for attacks, whether it’s cyber espionage against participants, disruptions to critical election infrastructure, or altering public opinion. Regardless of the threat origin, the attacker’s objective is to create chaos and harm federal, state, and local governments.

How Mandiant supports election security

Mandiant’s unique combination of expertise across threat intelligence, services, and solutions empower organizations to continually evolve to defend themselves against election threats like: data integrity and destruction, ransomware, insider threats, and information operations (IO).

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Mandiant election security solutions

Mandiant Threat Intelligence helps identify Information Operations (IO) activity when there are election influence or interference attempts. This can include cyber espionage, infrastructure attacks, information operations, and attacks on critical infrastructure. It also offers access to continuous threat, vulnerability, and operational risk monitoring.

Mandiant's Digital Risk Protection provides organizations visibility into their global attack surface and dark web activity so they can stop threat actor campaigns before their business is impacted. Mandiant now provides a broad digital risk protection solution either by standalone, self-managed SaaS products or through a comprehensive service.

Prepare, harden, and test before an election event

To help organizations test controls and operations before an election event, Mandiant offers Incident Response Services and Retainers and Compromise Assessment services.

Mandiant Attack Surface Management generates a comprehensive view of an entire organization’s attack surface to fully map the entire environment and have visibility into all potential threats.

Maintain election security during the event

Organizations need to continuously validate and defend all their security controls during an election event. Mandiant offers red team and purple team exercises, defense testing with Mandiant Security Validation, and activity monitoring with Mandiant Managed Defense.

Respond to, contain, and remediate a security threat

Ensure election continuity with quick response time to any incident that unfolds. Mandiant Incident Response Retainer with onsite surge capabilities enable an organization to tap Mandiant experts for containment, recovery, restoration, and follow-up actions to help maintain election security.

Secure the vote

Modern election infrastructure is mostly digitized. Tenets, practices, and capabilities that account for various targeting tactics are crucial to maintaining trust in the democratic electoral system. But protecting election infrastructure requires a strategic and fully cooperative approach involving support from both the public and private sectors. Learn about the methods attackers use to threaten public confidence in elections, and what organizations can do to secure and validate their security capabilities ahead of upcoming elections.

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