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What Next TBD: How Secure Is Our Election?

Slate Technology

Slate

Society & Culture, Technology, History

4.6636 Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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America’s head of cybersecurity isn’t worried about the election being hacked or the results being tampered with. But this election cycle does have her worried for our democracy. Guest: Jen Easterly, Director of Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency  Want more What Next TBD? Subscribe to Slate Plus to access ad-free listening to the whole What Next family and all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe today on Apple Podcasts by clicking “Try Free” at the top of our show page. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to get access wherever you listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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tasked with overseeing election security. Her name is Jenny Sterly. She's a West Point grad,

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an Army veteran, and a former Rhodes Scholar.

1:12.9

And now she runs SISA, which stands for cybersecurity and infrastructure security agency.

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We were stood up at the end of 2018 to play two key roles.

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We serve as America's Cyber Defense Agency and as the national coordinator for critical infrastructure

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resilience and security.

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So the mission is to lead the national effort to understand, manage, and reduce risk to the

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cyber and physical infrastructure that Americans rely on every hour of every day for water, for

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