State about security challenges. I want to welcome my panelists up here. Thank you for being to participate in this discussion. Obviously, its the topic day jour for Election Administrators and folks like jeremy in the Computer Science community dealing with election cybersecurity, securing the elections process. Just as a way of background, this topic is the topic de jour coming out of the elections where we saw state actors targeting systems and vendors and sphere fishing attempts in 2016 as well as declaration of elections as Critical Infrastructure. By the department of security. I hope we can talk about the operating environment. S and what steps were looking to secure the process looking at 2018 and how you are. Jeremy gray was supposed to be here from l. A. County and he came down with the flu. We thank him for not coming. We thank him for not coming. I will tee it up to do quick three to five minute opening remarks and then get into the discussion if thats okay. My far right is
Thank you for being to participate in this discussion. Obviously, its the topic day jour for Election Administrators and folks like jeremy in the Computer Science community dealing with election cybersecurity, securing the elections process. Just as a way of background, this topic is the topic de jour coming out of the elections where we saw state actors targeting systems and vendors and sphere fishing attempts in 2016 as well as declaration of elections as Critical Infrastructure. By the department of security. I hope we can talk about the operating environment. S and what steps were looking to secure the process looking at 2018 and how you are. Jeremy gray was supposed to be here from l. A. County and he came down with the flu. We thank him for not coming. We thank him for not coming. I will tee it up to do quick three to five minute opening remarks and then get into the discussion if thats okay. My far right is jeremy epstein, a long time involved in Election Research and member of