CISA issues election infrastructure security plan 40 days before midterms

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has released an election infrastructure security plan 40 days before the November midterms, outlining potential threats to election systems and offering services to protect the vote. This comes after the Trump administration struggled to kickstart efforts to help states safeguard voting systems, as they had significantly reduced CISA's election security efforts last year.

CISA, which has been warning state and local election officials about potential threats from foreign governments since its founding in 2018, has been notably absent from this role during the 2022 elections. The 13-page document emphasizes that CISA has consistently supported the delivery of cybersecurity and physical security services to election officials at no cost, but numerous officials have reported that such services were not available before this year's midterms.