Recommended Security Controls for Voter Registration Systems

Abstract

Voter registration systems are critical and highly interconnected components of most states election infrastructures. This report is directed at technical members of state and local governments that maintain such systems. It recommends actionable security controls that can be applied to protect these systems. These controls apply to various components of voter registration systems, as well as existing connections to many external entities, including government organizations such as motor vehicle authorities and the Social Security Administration, and non-government third-party organizations. Securing and verifying the authenticity of data shared over these connections will be an important step toward protecting elections from outside influence.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 2019
Accession Number
AD1108096

Entities

People

  • Brett Pleasant
  • Carter Casey
  • Johann Thairu
  • Marc Schneider
  • Susan Prince
  • Susie Heilman

Organizations

  • MITRE Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Cyber

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Authentication
  • Best Practices
  • Computer Access Control
  • Computers
  • Control Systems
  • Cybersecurity
  • Denial Of Service Attack
  • Detection
  • Electronic Mail
  • Failure Mode And Effect Analysis
  • Governments
  • Identity Management Systems
  • Information Science
  • Information Systems
  • Intrusion Detection
  • Intrusion Detection Systems
  • Intrusion Detectors
  • Network Protocols
  • Operating Systems
  • Security Protocols
  • State Governments

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

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  • Electrical Engineering
  • Military and Counterinsurgency Studies.