Please Note: the start time for this webinar is now 1pm Eastern. All other details remain the same!
On Election Day, somewhere in America, someone may accidentally hit a polling place with their car, or an election worker may innocently unplug a voting machine when plugging in a microwave to heat up their lunch. These are the kinds of inadvertent mistakes that commonly get reported in the news, often without enough context, which can increase public distrust in the electoral process and infrastructure. Meanwhile, there are real threats to digital and physical election operations this year, and news audiences need to know about them. Join Cait Conley, Senior Advisor to the Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) for a practical briefing on known and potential threats to the 2024 elections, how election stakeholders are mitigating those threats, and advice on how journalists can prepare to report on them.
In this webinar, hosted by The Journalist’s Resource, attendees will learn about:
- the landscape of threats to the 2024 U.S. elections.
- what those threats mean practically to the security or integrity of the elections process.
- what election officials, vendors and the federal government are doing to protect the security and resilience of the U.S. election infrastructure.
About the speaker:
Cait Conley is the Senior Advisor to the Director, a role that includes responsibilities supporting CISA’s election security efforts. Conley leads CISA’s work in partnering with state and local election officials to manage and reduce risk to the Nation’s election infrastructure.
Conley brings a wealth of election security experience and knowledge to this role having previously served as the Executive Director of the bipartisan Defending Digital Democracy Project, based out of Harvard University’s Belfer Center. As Executive Director, she led the development and implementation of strategies, tools and recommendations for election administrators, election infrastructure providers, campaign organizations and leaders involved in democratic processes to better defend against cybersecurity threats.
Conley is an experienced combat veteran with demonstrated leadership in global special operations, cyber operations, and counterterrorism. Most recently, Conley served as the Director for Counterterrorism for the National Security Council prior to joining CISA as a Senior Advisor to the CISA Director.
Conley is a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point and holds a Master’s degree in Business Administration from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Master of Public Policy Degree from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government.
