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Part of the AvengerCon VII presentations cleared for public release:
Presented by Andrew Schoka.
As high-value targets for both state-sponsored and criminal actors, political parties face an array of challenges in securing their organization’s digital footprint. State-level party offices, in particular, are at a heightened degree of vulnerability, owing to varying levels of IT experience, unpredictable funding cycles, and the inherently public nature of their organizations. A major security concern for state parties is the threat of sensitive account or organizational data being publicly leaked or manipulated to undermine the organization’s political objectives. The risk of this scenario is magnified by the widespread appearance of party-affiliated account data in large-scale data breaches.
This session offers a follow-on to AvengerCon V’s 'Into the Breach' talk, which detailed the anomalous results from data-mining and analyzing state political party account exposure data at scale and comparing the results with data breach detection services provided by the HaveIBeenPwned API. With the benefit of hindsight, this year’s talk focuses on a longitudinal analysis of how the threat landscape has evolved and overlays the project’s data collection with real-world examples of state political party cybersecurity incidents from the last 18 months. The results speak to the importance of integrating security programs with the core mission and culture of political parties across the country.
Boiler:
AvengerCon is a free security event hosted every fall by Maryland Innovation and Security Institute to benefit the hackers of the U.S. Cyber Command community and the U.S. Army 780th Military Intelligence Brigade. The event is open to all service members and employees of U.S. Cyber Command and Department of Defense personnel supporting cyberspace missions. AvengerCon features presentations, hacker villages, training workshops, and much more.
The event is open to all service members and employees of U.S. Cyber Command and Department of Defense, and related partners supporting cyberspace missions.
The views expressed are those of the presenter, and do not reflect the official position of the 780th Military Intelligence Brigade, U.S. Cyber Command, the Department of the Army, or Department of Defense.
| Date Taken: | 12.01.2022 |
| Date Posted: | 01.04.2023 10:11 |
| Category: | Series |
| Video ID: | 870215 |
| VIRIN: | 221201-O-PX639-685 |
| Filename: | DOD_109398108 |
| Length: | 00:27:49 |
| Location: | US |
| Downloads: | 1 |
| High-Res. Downloads: | 1 |
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