New research has revealed that 70 per cent of IT security professionals think governments will not be able to protect election infrastructure from cyber attacks.

A survey of 485 IT security professionals attending the virtual RSA conference this year, by machine identity protection company Venafi, found that the profession remains largely sceptical as to whether the authorities can adequately defend election infrastructure against domestic and international cyber attacks


With the US presidential election set to take place in November, three quarters said they believed that the spread of disinformation via social media and politicised news outlets has now become the greatest threat to election integrity.


Kevin Bocek, vice president of security strategy and threat intelligence at Venafi, said: “The election season is already in process and COVID-19 adds a new layer of security complications - cyber attackers may take advantage of this period of uncertainty to undermine further public confidence by spreading disinformation."

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