The security of U.S. election systems was a major water-cooler topic this summer. The Arizona Secretary of State’s office closed down the state’s voter registration system after a hacker compromised valid credentials and used them to access the system. A leaked FBI memo says foreign actors used common scanning tools to find and exploit vulnerabilities in election systems. The attackers used off-the-shelf and free, open-source tools, which require a very low skill level to use. These types of attacks are not hard to perpetrate, but they are also easy to defend against.”]