Protecting company data used to be a matter of having network security and locking down your email accounts. But since more businesses are relying on cloud computing, their data is spread across different servers all over the country and even beyond. Cloud servers can only be accessed by authorized accounts usernames and passwords, which means information security now revolves around keeping these accounts secure.

The proceedings of the 2018 US midterm elections received intense scrutiny, due in large part to the Russian misinformation campaign that rattled the 2016 US election season. The Boston Globe uncovered a government report that indicated more than 160 suspected election-related incidents, including attempted illegal logins to voter databases, compromised municipal networks, and even incidents of attempted campaign phishing.