This panel will provide a chance for policy makers and cybersecurity practitioners to hear directly from state and local election officials about what they need and, perhaps more importantly, what they don’t need in advance of the 2020 elections. Audience members will be able to engage directly with election experts and develop a better understanding of their needs and resource limitations.
Nearly all major privacy laws and regulations – from the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act to the European General Directive for Privacy Regulation – include express data security requirements. Yet, some members of Congress and other commentators have suggested that security provisions will only serve to make privacy legislation more difficult to pass while others suggest that they can’t vote for a bill without security. What type of security is being discussed in these bills and how will they affect consumers?
This panel will discuss the more modern IT architectures that agencies are adopting and the types of security solutions that underpin those environments. It will also cover how government wide security programs are adapting to support those more modernized IT ecosystems.
When designed to operate in complete stealth mode, with no persistent notification to the device owner, stalkerware can give abusers, stalkers, and other perpetrators a robust tool to perpetrate harassment, monitoring, stalking, fraud, and abuse. This type of abuse can be terrifying, traumatizing, and raises significant safety and privacy concerns. This panel will discuss the availability of these apps, the use of them as a tool for abuse, and the steps government and industry can take to help combat the problem.
