In a post for Lawfare, former U.S. Department of Justice attorney Carrie Cordero, CIPP/US, discusses the cybersecurity risks of U.S.-based political campaigns and their parallels with the private sector. “Political campaign security, from a regulatory perspective, is in somewhat of a no-man’s land,” she writes. Thus far, “no government entity appears to be focusing its work on instituting fines and restrictions on political campaigns based on their cybersecurity posture,” and unlike other regulators – the Federal Trade Commission and the Security Exchange Commission, for example – the Federal Election Commission “has not appeared to be monitoring the cybersecurity of political campaigns.” Since campaigns collect vast amounts of personal information, she points out, it’s time for them to build in protections and staff training “from the start.”
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