"CISA Hosts Election Security Exercise Ahead of 2022 Midterm Elections"

The US Homeland Security Department's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), along with state and local election community members, completed a three-day exercise to prepare for various potential cyber and physical threats to the voting process ahead of the 2022 midterm elections. The fifth annual "Tabletop the Vote" exercise, hosted by CISA together with the Election Assistance Commission (EAC), the National Association of Secretaries of State (NASS), and the National Association of State Election Directors (NASED), took place amid growing concerns about the impact of election-related misinformation and targeted harassment of election officials on voting process integrity. In a press release, CISA stated that the exercise was not in response to any specific or credible threat but rather a way for officials and election administrators to share best practices for cyber and physical incident planning, preparedness, identification, response, and recovery. Officials from the Department of Justice (DOJ), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the National Security Agency (NSA), and other federal agencies, as well as state and local election officials and more than a dozen election industry companies, attended the event. This article continues to discuss the election security exercise hosted by CISA aimed at preparing for potential cyber and physical threats. 

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