About election security. We are a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization. Donors. Unding from entitledote an article friendly fire, the number one threat to American Election security. Tell us what you mean by friendly fire. Most of the focus has been people outside of the u. S. Trying to interact with our elections. But one thing i realized we were not talking about was that cybersecurity focuses on both offense and defense. We have not been talking about the threat that comes from not having appropriate training for our own security and poll workers. Dowhat type of training election workers get and what type should they get when it comes to cybersecurity . Thats a great question. Unfortunately, there is no uniform standard for training so it really depends across your state or even local county. This can wildly vary depending on where you are located. Most are trained by local election officers. This training can vary all over the place, because of the shift to protectl need against cyb
Diseases. Sarah i am pleased to convene the meeting. Welcome to todays council on relations meeting. Im the executive Vice President of worldwide Government Legal Affairs at mcandrews and forbes incorporated. I will be presiding over todays discussion. I will have the privilege of for 30 a conversation minutes and i will open it to questions and answers. Promptly at 1 30 as you might imagine. Very busy emen are right now dealing with coronavirus. So lets just start looking back decade, ghly the past emerging Infectious Diseases ave played a recurring and minous theme, the h1n1, ebola, zika and the 2019 novel oronavirus, the threat is not dissipating. When it comes to nondisease natural disasters, the act Disaster Relief funds to enable Immediate Response by small son, there is Infectious Disease Rapid Response reserve fund. Stafford act ore like mechanism to enable a research sponse to these new threats . First aybe ill take the whack at this. Because i think that the feeling in congre