The footprint of modern elections is broader than ever. The infrastructure that enables elections no longer only sits on premises. Much of the work of preparing for and running elections now depends on cloud services: email, file sharing, voter registration access, online voter services, election night reporting tools, candidate portals, vendor support portals, domain and website administration, and official social media accounts. In many cases, these cloud services can offer stronger security than offices could build on their own, but securing cloud environments requires additional attention to identity, session management, and monitoring. This is not a comprehensive guide on cloud security; rather, it focuses on essential practices for securing the logins and the services behind them.
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