Forbes October 9, 2024
Michelle Drolet

Michelle Drolet is CEO of Towerwall, a pure-play cybersecurity firm offering compliance and professional cybersecurity services.

Just in time for the 2024 U.S. elections, cyberattacks and malicious activities are ramping up. For numerous reasons, elections are the perfect time for opportunistic cybercriminals to target businesses:

• High visibility: Elections provide an ideal platform for nation-states and hacktivists looking for ways to undermine democracies, destabilize elections, damage reputations and steal campaign data. Since elections have national and global visibility, any damage inflicted could have profound effects and a far-reaching erosion of trust.

• High volume and sensitivity of data: The volume (and sensitivity) of data, emails and transactions associated with elections is so vast that attackers may want to acquire this...

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