Cyber Security Awareness for Election and Poll Workers – Kirsten Davies – ESW #381
The vast majority of the folks working polls and elections are volunteers. This creates a significant training challenge. Not only do they have to learn how to perform a complex and potentially stressful job in a short amount of time (most training is one day or less), cybersecurity-related concerns are usually not included for individual poll location and election workers.
Kirsten Davies has a passion project that attempts to solve this, with some concise, accessible, and straightforward training material. It is made available through two PDFs on her new organization's website, instituteforcybercivics.org.
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Kirsten Davies is a globally recognized leader in Enterprise Transformation, Digital Innovation, Technology and Cyber Risk Management, and AI Assurance. She is an ardent advocate for public-private partnerships, cross-industry collaboration, and the ethical use of technology and AI to support individuals’ rights.
Davies’s experience stretches across Fortune 500 companies, including as Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for Unilever, CISO for The Estee Lauder Companies, MD & Corporate Security Officer for Barclays (Africa Group), and Deputy CISO for both Hewlett Packard Enterprises and Siemens.
An active investor, she is an Advisor for start-ups and VCs and is a member of NSI’s Cyber & Tech Security Council. She is the Founder and CEO of the Institute for Cyber Civics, a non-profit organization bringing Fortune 500 best practices in cyber security to the lives of everyday citizens. ICC’s inaugural work is delivering cyber policy, awareness and training to election officials, polls observers, and voters for the 2024 US elections.
Kirsten actively supports the A21 Campaign to end Human Trafficking, and NURU International to build local entrepreneurship across Africa.
