A Practical Guide
Election infrastructure faces increasingly complex cybersecurity threats, and much of the technology and services that support it are delivered by external partners: contract IT providers, managed service providers (MSPs), and elections technology vendors. These relationships introduce both opportunity and risk. Understanding how to lead productive cybersecurity conversations with these partners and how to hold them accountable through contracts, service-level agreements (SLAs) for monitoring and system management, and incident response and continuity planning is essential to protecting election operations. This guide helps election officials approach those conversations with clarity, confidence, and purpose, organized into three phases: preparing for the meeting, conducting the meeting, and following up afterward.
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