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The \u201c<\/span>Secure the Election<\/span><\/a>\u201d initiative the ethical hacking company launched in 2018 to offer crowdsourced penetration testing to election officials, has continued into 2020. The company says that it\u2019s committed $1 million toward the initiative, which allows white-hat hackers to expose an election system\u2019s vulnerabilities before they can be exploited by a malicious actor. The penetration testing itself will expose how many and which servers an election system has connected to the internet, as well as whether a state\u2019s online voter registration system connects directly to its voter registration database, and whether that database can be accessed by any other government agency, like a motor vehicle agency.<\/span><\/p>\n

One state that\u2019s taking advantage of Synack\u2019s services is Colorado, where the office of Secretary of State Jena Griswold has the company <\/span>testing anything that\u2019s internet-connected<\/span><\/a>, including electronic poll books.\u00a0\u201cWe need to know [vulnerabilities],\u201d Griswold’s chief information officer, Trevor Timmons, told StateScoop in July. \u201cWe\u2019ve got enough time that if they found anything we\u2019d be able to respond to them.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The \u201cSecure the Election\u201d initiative the ethical hacking company launched in 2018 to offer crowdsourced penetration testing to election officials, has continued into 2020. The company says that it\u2019s committed $1 million toward the initiative, which allows white-hat hackers to expose an election system\u2019s vulnerabilities before they can be exploited by a malicious actor. 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