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Panelist - Election Officials & Researchers Working Together
EAC Data Summit: Election Administration by the Numbers, 2025
This summit was sponsored by the Elections Assistance Commission and held at MIT. The panel explored research in elections security and processes, explaining how academics can help local boards of elections be more efficient and secure.
Keynote - Proactive Risk: Managing, Mitigating, and a Case Study in Election Security
NATO 15th Operations Research and Analysis Conference, 2021
This Keynote address highlighted systemic threats, which are the interplay between cyber, physical, and insider risks, with U.S. elections security as a case study.
Conference Proceedings (scroll down for Proactive Risk presentation slides, item number MP-SAS-OCS-ORA-2021-KN-01P)
Securing Maryland’s Voting Process
League of Women Voters of Kent County, Maryland, 2021
Following the 2016 and 2020 General Elections, election security and the integrity of our election processes have become a prevalent, national conversation. From the 2019 Senate Intelligence Committee report indicating that election systems in all 50 states were targeted by foreign adversaries to the more recent broadened use of and concern about mail-based voting, election security and integrity is increasingly important. This presentation highlights the research results of three projects related to election security: (1) threat analysis and mitigations of Maryland voting systems; (2) development of effective cybersecurity training modules for election judges; (3) threat analysis of mail-based voting given COVID-19 related impacts to elections security.