5 Points. Texas Cyber Security Experts Tell Texas What to Do.

Which Texas cybersecurity experts signed this letter to the Texas Secretary of State?

• Scott Aaronson, Professor, University of Texas at Austin
• Chris Bronk, Assistant Professor, University of Houston
• Alvaro Cardenas, Assistant Professor, University of Texas at Dallas
• Guofei Gu, Associate Professor, Texas A&M
• Murat Kantarcioglu, Professor, University of Texas at Dallas
• Jiang Ming, Assistant Professor, University of Texas at Arlington
• Dan S. Wallach, Professor, Rice University
• Brent Waters, Associate Professor, University of Texas at Austin
• Greg White, Professor, University of Texas at San Antonio

What 4 priorities did the cybersecurity experts identify?

• updated election security standards and accountability mechanisms
  • legislative action
  • key phrase: ensure consistent cyber-hygiene
  • require election officials to undergo cybersecurity training
  • no electronic overseas voting
  • Legislature should give the Secretary of State authority to oversee the safeguards of all elections in Texas
• auditable paper trails
  • all counties
• mandatory post-election audits
  • clear rules for the methodology and size of the audits
• secure voter registration systems
  • prepare for disasters by ensuring that voter database servers are capable of both local and offsite failover

What 3 things should the required Study of Texas Election Systems Include?

•  investigation of vulnerabilities and risks for a cyber attack against Texas’s voting and voting registration systems
• information on any attempted cyber attack on these systems
• recommendations for protecting a county’s voting system machines and list of registered voters from a cyber attack