PRESS RELEASE: Cambridge Global CEO Jake Braun Presents DEFCON Voting Village Report at LRPP Conference

June 28, 2018 (Singapore) - This week, Cambridge Global Advisors (CGA) was proud to announce that CEO Jake Braun presented the 7th Annual International Conference on Law, Regulations, and Public Policy (LRPP) in Singapore.  Hosted by the Global Science & Technology Forum (GTSF), the conference brings together public sector leaders from around the world to discuss the latest developments in legal, policy, and regulatory space.

Bruan’s presentation featured a discussion on the ground-breaking “Voting Machine Hacker Village” demonstration at last year’s DEFCON -- the largest, longest running hacker conference in the world. Coming at a time when intelligence and news was emerging about Russian-backed attempts to hack U.S. voting infrastructure during the 2016 election, the DEFCON Voting Village sought to serve as an awareness-building opportunity.  The Village assembled more than 25 pieces of election equipment including voting machines and pollbooks still widely used in U.S. elections today and made them accessible to thousands of hackers.

Following on the Voting Village demonstration, Braun and several other Village organizers co-authored an award-winning report, detailing the Voting Village findings. The report can be accessed here.

In presenting this report at the LRPP 2018 Conference, Braun furthered his efforts to raise awareness about the severity and pervasiveness of cyber threats facing not only the U.S. but also democracies around the world.

“Nefarious cyber actors, including but not limited to Russia, know no boundaries,” said Braun. “What the DEFCON Voting Village revealed last year is that this is election security a global problem that will continue to persist. We have to work together, across all nations, in the cyber, public policy and legal arena to make our elections more secure. LRPP gives one forum to start and continue this important conversation.”

The Voting Village is slated to run again at this year’s DEFCON, August 9-12, 2018, hosted annually in Las Vegas.

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