{
  "id": 9609486,
  "title": "CISA issues election infrastructure security plan 40 days before midterms",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/24/cisa-issues-election-infrastructure-security-plan-40-days-before",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-24T18:42:25.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Fast Company",
    "slug": "fast-company",
    "url": "https://www.fastcompany.com/91612709/elections-cybersecurity-midterms-cisa-states"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "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.",
  "summary": "The nation’s cybersecurity agency on Thursday released an election infrastructure security plan 40 days before November’s midterms , laying out potential threats to election systems and listing services it would offer to election officials to protect the vote. The plan, which Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin had originally promised to release by mid-August, comes after the Trump…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}