Offering secure and safe elections is a vital perform of native governments – and has been a part of a fraught nationwide dialog. What could possibly be extra essential to a democracy?

Taking a proactive method to safety, the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk developed the Elections Cybersecurity Operations Heart to observe its elections infrastructure and enterprise networks and supply early risk detection that might jeopardize election operations. For the 2022 main elections, the middle collected practically 670 million occasions from 20 distinctive knowledge supply sorts and produced 1,286 high-fidelity alarms over the 11-day voting interval, amounting to 2 terabytes of information. The safety staff investigated and addressed all vital investigations inside 24 hours.

The initiative is one among 50 winners of this yr’s CSO50 Awards and might be acknowledged on the CSO50 Convention + Awards, held October 2-4 on the We-Ko-Pa On line casino & Resort in Fort McDowell, Arizona. The occasion may also acknowledge this yr’s inductees to the CSO Corridor of Fame.

Different winners of the awards, which reveal excellent enterprise worth and thought management, embrace Accenture, Allstate, Genpact, United Airways, Wells Fargo, and Zoom Communications. Successful initiatives addressed points resembling identification and entry administration, risk mitigation and restoration, utility safety, and 0 belief.

Recognizing these excellent initiatives is without doubt one of the highlights of our yr on Foundry’s U.S. occasions staff. Profitable safety initiatives typically go unnoticed as a result of they stop issues. Via the CSO50 Awards, we discover the hassle and management it takes to plan and implement them.

The convention brings collectively not solely the award winners however individuals who wish to be taught from them to carry the teachings again to their organizations.