2024, the year of elections
Nov 20, 2023Jocelyn Woolbright

Summary
This post details the increased threat landscape against election entities, with a focus on HTTP Anomaly and SQL Injection as top attack vectors mitigated by the WAF. It highlights the significant volume of threats mitigated for U.S. election groups, political campaigns, and voting rights organizations, and discusses traffic trends observed during election periods. The post also touches on the increasing adoption of .gov domains and the use of managed rulesets by organizations with limited security resources.
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