Raise your hand if you've ever gotten one of these questions: the kind where the correct answer is yes.
We think a cybersecurity question like this was just asked. It went to CEOs of electronic voting machine manufacturers.
U.S. Senator Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat, fired off the information security letters loaded with very specific cybersecurity questions on October 3, 2017.
Cybersecurity question number one for voting machine CEOs:
"Does your company employ a Chief Information Security Officer? If yes, to whom do they directly report? If not, why not?"
Do you agree that a "yes" is the preferred answer here?
The senator is also digging into how prominent InfoSec is within each voting machine manufacturer's corporate structure.
Along those lines, our SecureWorld Advisory Council Members across the country tell us that cybersecurity is really gaining prominence within their enterprise or organization this year.
But is it being taken seriously enough by those who play a part in determining the next U.S. leader or next president?
The rest of Senator Wyden's questions go to the heart of cybersecurity. They ask about the size of security teams, vulnerabilities, and even the NIST Cybersecurity Framework.
How would you or your team respond to a letter like this?
The senator also sent similar letters to voting system test laboratories and asked for a response by October 31, 2017.
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