August 05, 2024

In a Pro-Publica piece about a serious flaw discovered in the Georgia election system, Harris faculty member Jake Braun was cited: 

Jake Braun, the author of a book on cybersecurity flaws in election systems and lecturer at the University of Chicago, said that there is a long history of elections-related websites suffering from easily exploitable security failures, including Russians hacking election infrastructure during the 2016 election and public-interest competitions in which participants breached replicas of state election websites in minutes. Online elections infrastructure, he said, “needs more standards and better standards.”

Read the full story here: https://www.propublica.org/article/cybersecurity-expert-finds-another-flaw-in-georgia-voter-portal

Jake Braun
Faculty Spotlight

Jacob Braun
Executive Director, Cyber Policy Initiative, University of Chicago | Co-Founder, Cambridge Global Advisors | Former acting Principal Deputy National Cyber Director, The White House

Jake Braun is the Executive Director of the Cyber Policy Initiative at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy and Co-Founder of Cambridge Global Advisors, a national security consulting firm. He most recently served in The White House as acting Principal Deputy National Cyber D...