Presuming that Ohio successfully detected and thwarted an election-related cyberattack from a Russian-owned company during its November 5, 2019 elections, there are several takeaways from it. https://www.daytondailynews.com/news/local/official-russian-owned-company-attempted-ohio-election-hack/xyApEs2xdO4EJ3Bs8CMW6H/">https://www.daytondailynews.com/news/loca...

1) All other states should be briefed on Ohio& #39;s experience, if they haven& #39;t been already, so that they have this knowledge for future elections. and can make additional preparations, if necessary.

2) All state and local election officials should be equipped with Albert systems for their 2020 elections.

3) Adversaries aren& #39;t just interested in interfering with major, even-year general elections. They want to disrupt and undermine the credibility of democracy and elections, more broadly, and this can be achieved through hacking ANY election.

4) Ohio& #39;s experience underscores the importance of securing election websites. For example, all election websites should have .gov domain names and https security protocols. https://ktrh.iheart.com/content/2019-11-22-survey-majority-texas-county-election-websites-not-secure/">https://ktrh.iheart.com/content/2...

5) The goal isn& #39;t to make election systems perfect from a security standpoint for 2020 -- that& #39;s practically impossible. Rather, it is to make our systems more resilient, so that we can detect issues and recover from them.