BSidesCharm2025

Andrew Schoka

Andrew Schoka is a former U.S. Army Cyber Warfare Officer and is currently a graduate student at the University of Virginia. He served in a variety of offensive cyber operations assignments with the Election Security Group at U.S. Cyber Command, and later with U.S. Special Operations Command. Andrew holds a master's in cybersecurity from Georgia Tech and teaches a graduate cybersecurity course at the University of Virginia School of Engineering.


Session

04-12
16:00
50min
Beyond the Breach: Securing Political Parties in the 2024 U.S. Election
Andrew Schoka, Mary Lee Carter, Veronica Merril

In 2021, we presented at BSides Charm on the vulnerabilities plaguing state-level political party domains across the country. This year, we're back to share the evolution of that work into a non-partisan nationwide election cybersecurity initiative that discovered and shared thousands of vulnerabilities in political campaigns and party offices before the 2024 Election.

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