Resources
Athena Strategies collects helpful resources such as tools, fact sheets, guidance, and templates for use by election and other government officials, voters, partners, and other interested parties. These resources focus on election security, voting rights, and amplifying understanding and civil discourse about elections in the U.S. If you have a suggested resource for inclusion, please contact us.
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CISA Physical Security Advisor (PSA) Program
Within each CISA Region are local and regional Protective Security Advisors (PSAs). PSAs are based in the community, are subject matter experts in critical infrastructure, and are trusted partners of government officials.
National Association of Secretaries of State (NASS), #TrustedInfo Initiative
This site describes the #TrustedInfo initiative established by the National Association of Secretaries of State (NASS) to promote election officials’ trusted sources of election information.
Brennan Center’s Securing the 2024 Election
Brennan Center’s report assesses the broad work that must be done in order to prepare for and secure the 2024 election cycle.
Election Security and Voting Rights Websites
Below are some additional official sources that clearly describe different parts and processes of the United States’s election ecosystem.
Brennan Center and CSET’s AI Recommendations
Brennan Center for Justice and Georgetown's Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET) have begun a helpful series of essays and recommendations, examining the benefits and risks of AI on elections. This series explores steps that the public, private, and nonprofit sectors should take to reduce risk and increase the positive impact of AI tools for elections.
Issue One: Faces of Democracy, How Our Elections Work and the Challenges Ahead
Issue One interviewed dozens of current and former bipartisan election officials, from secretaries of state to local election officials, to explain how U.S. elections work and who runs them.
Election Assistance Commission (EAC)’s AI Toolkit for Election Officials
The U.S. Election Assistance Commission developed a toolkit for election officials to gain a greater understanding of AI tools and technologies and their Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats (SWOT Analysis).
AI and Democracy
This resource is a series of essays by the Brennan Center and Georgetown’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology, which examines the benefits and risks of AI on elections.
CISA’s Insider Threat Mitigation Resources
An insider is a person who has or had access to or knowledge of an organization’s resources, facilities, equipment, or systems. Insider threat means the potential for an insider to use that access to harm the organization, which may include intentional or unintentional acts that negatively affect the integrity, confidentiality, and availability of the organization, its data, personnel, or facilities.
Contextualizing Deepfake Threats to Organizations
Joint information sheet issued by the Department of Homeland Security Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the National Security Agency (NSA) on threats from AI-generated “synthetic media.”