Remember those old car alarms that used to go off if someone shook the vehicle or a person got too close?
Now elections officials in 36 states have installed something like that at the election infrastructure level.
Called the Albert Sensor, it goes off, digitally speaking, when it senses a hacker is trying to break into an elections network.
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The Albert is a $5,000 piece of hardware containing an IDS (Intrusion Detection System) that reports back to a centralized security operations center, where cybersecurity experts analyze incoming alerts.
Reuters talked to the Department of Homeland Security about the sensors:
“We have more than quadrupled the number of sensors on state and county networks since 2016, giving the election community as a whole far greater visibility into potential threats than we’ve ever had in the past,” said Matthew Masterson, a senior adviser on election security for DHS.
