Cloudflare, Google, Microsoft, Akamai, Synack, Thycotic, and McAfee are offering free security services for the 2018 fall midterms. Security experts say Web-based systems are the most likely and easiest targets for attack during the elections. The free offerings aren’t all altruistic, of course; they’re just a first step in updating and tightening security of election systems. There realistically won’t be any major improvements in security until at least 2020, experts say.”]

