National Guard Cyber Teams Activated for 2020 Election
National Guard cyber teams activated for elections in these states. On election night 2020, dozens of states will have members of their National Guard cyber teams ready and waiting to deal with attacks on their voting systems.
National Guard plans all-virtual I cyber exercise
BY LAUREN C. WILLIAMS • SEP 07, 2020
The National Guard is moving its massive annual cyber exercise, Cyber Shield 2020, completely online for the first time due to the ingoing COVID-19 pandemic with a renewed focus on information operations.
“Everybody has heard the term fake news; that didn’t just originate. It’s been going on for a long time,” said George Battistelli, exercise director and Chief of IT Security, Compliance and Readiness Division, G6, for the Army National Guard, during a Sept. 2 call with reporters.
“There are specifically actors that would like to run their influence operations and so the more that we can give our defensive, cyber operation elements and our cyber protection teams the ability to see those things, the more they’re able to discern them in the real world.”The 14 states with teams on duty Tuesday are North Carolina, Arizona, Iowa, Pennsylvania, Colorado. Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Louisiana, New Mexico, New York. Washington and West Virginia.
National Guard officials will work and receive security updates from the
Infrastructure Security-Agency (CISA), the key agency tasked with protecting election infrastructure against cyber threats, according to Politico.
There are 38 total cyber units within the National Guard consisting of over 2,200 personnel working to support state and local officials with cyber issues like network assessments and risk mitigation.
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