Armis Helps Secure Election Integrity for the State of Georgia with Attack Surface Protection and Advanced Vulnerability Management

Background

With four locations statewide (two in metropolitan Atlanta, one in Macon, and one in Tifton), the Georgia Secretary of State (Georgia SOS) office is charged with election management, business registration, professional licensing, regulation of securities to protect against fraud and improve financial literacy, and more. With election integrity grabbing the headlines over the past few years, the state governing body needed a way to improve election oversight and integrity.

CIO Jonathan Reich manages a staff of 38 technical professionals who are split between election technology and back-office systems. They manage approximately 500 to 600 assets in each office and 10,000 poll pads, which are used by poll workers to check in and validate voters and issue the correct ballot for the appropriate precincts.

“In Georgia, the safety, security, and accuracy of our elections is paramount,” said Reich. “We realized that we needed a better view into the poll pads to see their cybersecurity patch levels and overall security health—that was the initial driving force behind our adoption of the Armis platform.”

The Solution

Reich first learned about Armis Centrix™ for Asset Management and Security from a colleague who works in the Henry County IT department in the Atlanta area. Reich also initiated conversations with the Armis account team on his own. He was convinced that Armis was the right solution during the POV, which focused primarily on discovery of in-office assets. Later, Armis was used to verify the security and integrity of poll pads in advance of elections.

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