HOW to Protect Democracy From Future Cyber Threats?

We need to use technology to protect and not undermine the democratic values and principles

Author: Cristian FRANCU

A malfunctioning app or technology can disrupt an election or an electoral process. With or without somebody planing this. What can we do about it an how can we avoid this ?

Written by Domingo G.
Municipal elections in the Dominican Republic were suspended four hours after voting began due to a problem with the electronic voting system. Half of the electronic devices used in the nationwide poll did not work properly causing virtual ballot pa...
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Written by Lary B.
Great ideas can com from the Good or the Bad guys! So we need Good security everywhere.
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Written by Cristian F.
INSIDER THREAT PROTECTION The Insider Threats as the Main Security Threats nowadays! The team members, the volunteers and/or employees are causing data breaches and leaks daily! Regardless of whether they are malicious or not, the organization's own...
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Written by Cezar B.
accidental technical disruptions aren't "per se" such a big threat as they can be identified and the aberrations corrected. The biggest cyber threat is the use of IT&C for manipulating the stakeholders of democracy. In order to prevent that, we can...
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Written by Bogdis P.
Another big threat is the fact that people and “groups of interests” with great wealth are capable to influence elections and also may become able to influence technologies - the development or the use of technologies.
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Written by Gena F.
How countries deal with these threats, which take place in the gray space between war and peace, is certainly a topic worthy of discussion . I would like to read hear opinions and comments from real politicians. And from technology developers.
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Written by Cristian F.
Because we are talking about Democracy and how to protect it from cyber attacks, I must say that Elections must remain a top priority. The cyber attacks targeting the 2017 French presidential election demonstrated that the interference in the 2016...
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Written by Tim H.
Just look at the February 2020 Iowa election and it’s broken or malfunctioning app! :-) Or find out about how, in 2016, the census in Australia became the target of a so-called “distributed denial-of-service” attack, which, theoretically unlike the...
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Written by Majoritas A.
Democracies are (in particular) vulnerable to cyber attacks That’s because Cyber attackers can target institutions directly, or indirectly by undermining public trust in them! And the biggest problem is that our democratic societies are constrain...
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Written by Bogdis P.
While each of us carries the internet in our pockets via smartphones, the process of digitalization is by no means complete. The Internet of Things is coming! This extension of the internet connecting with many things (Ex: televisions and refrigerat...
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