Silicon Valley insiders will likely play a bigger role than ever in ensuring the security of presidential campaigns in 2020.
Silicon Valley insiders will likely play a bigger role than ever in ensuring the security of presidential campaigns in 2020, joining established D.C. consulting firms and other bipartisan groups trying to lock down campaign communications and neutralize misinformation.
Stamos's advice indicates presidential contenders from 2020 are largely trying to address what they knew went wrong in 2016. Inside campaigns, that includes fixing insecure email and curbing staffers who have too much access to the most sensitive information. Outside the campaigns, that means focusing on managing the proliferation of influential trolls on the internet and social media, which in 2016 was largely drive by Russia, according to the Justice Department.
Companies like CrowdStrike, which was one of the first respondents to the hacking incidents within Clinton's campaign in 2016, and FireEye have already been tapped by political committees in advance of 2020. They've been holding high-level conversations with campaign leaders, according to people familiar with the campaigns. The companies declined to say whether they were working directly with Democrats.
The Democratic National Committee paid CrowdStrike $47,000 for"technology consulting" according to a February Federal Election Commission filing. The National Republican Congressional Committee paid CrowdStrike $120,000 for"computer support" during the 2018 campaign season. Campaigns are interested in understanding from where the threats are coming: Russia, of course, but also China and Iran, said Eric Rosenbach, director of the Defending Digital Democracy project at the Harvard Kennedy School, and former chief of staff to Obama Defense Secretary Ash Carter. Rosenbach said he has had conversations with five campaigns about preparing for potential attacks.
"When you see [misinformation] then, you take two paths. They need to have an established channel with the social media companies, Twitter and Facebook specifically. Second, they have to have a response team to push back on false or fake information," Rosenbach said.
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