Need for Cybersecurity Tools to Protect Political Campaigns with Michael Kaiser Defending Digital Campaigns

<p><strong>Michael Kaiser</strong> is the President and CEO of Defending Digital Campaigns, a nonprofit and nonpartisan organization working with Federal campaigns to secure their organizations and staff against cybercrime. DDC is providing free and low-cost security tools not counted as a campaign contribution with special permission by the FEC because unsafe political campaign practices are seen as a national security threat.</p> <p>We talk about</p> <ul> <li>Most significant cyber threats to political campaigns</li> <li>What cyber bad actors are trying to accomplish</li> <li>Security tools that DDC is making available to campaigns, staffers, candidates and their family members</li> <li>Focusing on what might happen, not what could happen</li> <li>Expanding this model to state and local races</li> </ul> <p>#DefendingDigitalCampaigns #DDC #2024Elections #PoliticalCampaigns #AI #Deepfakes #Disinformation #Misinformation #Cybersecurity #CampaignTech</p> <p><strong><a title="Defending Digital Campaigns" href= "http://DefendCampaigns.org" target="_blank" rel= "noopener">DefendCampaigns.org</a></strong></p> <p> </p> <p><a title="Defending Digital Campaigns" href= "http://DefendCampaigns.org" target="_blank" rel= "noopener"><strong><img style= "display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" src= "https://assets.libsyn.com/secure/show/69800/ddc.png" alt= "Defending Digital Campaigns" width="340" height= "120" /></strong></a></p>