Additional Resources#

  • Belfer Center, Defending Digital Democracy Playbooks: Guides to assist election officials and campaigns with improving their cybersecurity.

  • Brennan Center for Justice, A Procurement Guide for Better Election Cybersecurity: A look at seven key areas election officials and policymakers should consider as ways to achieve better vendor cybersecurity.

  • CIS’s CyberMarket: CyberMarket is the CIS collaborative purchasing program that serves U.S. election organizations (among others) to improve cybersecurity through cost-effective group procurement. CyberMarket works with industry-leading cybersecurity providers to offer stakeholders access to training, software and applications, and services.

  • CIS’s Election Infrastructure Information Sharing and Analysis Center (EI-ISAC). The EI-ISAC works closely with election officials and security and technology personnel to provide the highest standards of election security, including incident response and remediation through our team of cyber experts.

  • CIS’s Essential Guide to Election Security. A first-stop resource for election officials to learn about best practices in election security. This can aid the process of building a program designed to meet individual needs and abilities of any election office.

  • CIS’s Rapid Architecture Based Election Technology Verification Program (RABET-V). A rapid, reliable, and cost-effective approach to verifying non-voting election systems.

  • Election Audits, Readings and References: Compiled for the 2018 Election Audit Summit at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

  • CISA’s Cybersecurity Toolkit and Resources to Protect Elections. A toolkit including free tools, services, and resources provided by CISA, JCDC members, and others across the cybersecurity community.

  • Federal Virtual Training Environment (FedVTE): FedVTE provides free online cybersecurity training to U.S. government employees, federal contractors, and veterans. Through the EI-ISAC, U.S. election organizations can also gain access to FedVTE.

  • The Institute for Public Procurement Document Library: A library containing thousands of solicitations and templates, publications, and research to help you with your solicitation development activities.

  • U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) Cooperative Purchasing Program: With GSA’s Cooperative Purchasing Program, state and local governments can get what they need—for less. The Cooperative Purchasing Program provides access to thousands of nationwide, pre-vetted vendors that offer a wide array of commercial information technology (IT) and law enforcement products, services and integrated solutions.

  • The National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Election Terminology Glossary. Election terms including those used in the Voluntary Voting System Guidelines 2.0 (VVSG 2.0) requirements and glossary and in the NIST Common Data Format (CDF) specifications.

  • Voting System Procurement Prep: A vendor developed white paper, distributed at a National Association of Secretaries of State (NASS) conference, to assist state governments in making informed choices about procuring voting systems. White papers distributed at NASS conferences are not endorsed by the association, but simply made available to be shared with conference participants and Secretaries of State.