Respondents in a survey from Venafi said they believe voting machines, encrypted communications from polling stations and databases that store voter registration data are all vulnerable.
As the U.S. midterm election season gets underway in earnest, concerns about the ability to hack the vote is more in the spotlight than ever. A fresh survey from Venafi has found that a full 93 percent of security pros are concerned about cyber-attacks targeting election infrastructure.
The poll, which gathered responses from 411 IT security professionals in the U.S., U.K. and Australia, found that 81 percent believe that it’s not just ballot machines themselves at risk; they fear that cybercriminals also will target election data as it is transmitted by machines, software and hardware applications, from local polling stations to central aggregation points.
