Unconventional Attack against Voting Machines Enlarging the Scope of Cybersecurity Risk Analysis

Eric Filiol, Eric Filiol

2021

Abstract

Most modern democracies and states have adopted a large number of standards and norms to promote and harmonize international trade. The precautionary principle has come to complete this regulatory arsenal especially in the field of security of states and citizens, their health, their private life ... The aim is also to protect government agencies against wrong decisions, especially when uncertain, immature technologies are concerned. Social, political, institutional security and stability and now cybersecurity has become heavily dependent on these new forms of regulation. In this article we will show how this regulation arsenal could be exploited by cybercriminals. It is indeed possible through a broader vision of the notion of cyber attack to turn these norms and standards and this precautionary principle precisely against those they are supposed to protect. Among many possible scenarios, we consider a specific one for illustration with respect to the attack of voting machines. The main conclusion is that any (cyber)security risk analysis should now extend the mostly favoured technical view to a more operational vision in which non technical aspects also be included.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Filiol E. (2021). Unconventional Attack against Voting Machines Enlarging the Scope of Cybersecurity Risk Analysis.In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy - Volume 1: ForSE, ISBN 978-989-758-491-6, pages 763-770. DOI: 10.5220/0010417607630770

in Bibtex Style

@conference{forse21,
author={Eric Filiol},
title={Unconventional Attack against Voting Machines Enlarging the Scope of Cybersecurity Risk Analysis},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy - Volume 1: ForSE,},
year={2021},
pages={763-770},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0010417607630770},
isbn={978-989-758-491-6},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy - Volume 1: ForSE,
TI - Unconventional Attack against Voting Machines Enlarging the Scope of Cybersecurity Risk Analysis
SN - 978-989-758-491-6
AU - Filiol E.
PY - 2021
SP - 763
EP - 770
DO - 10.5220/0010417607630770