Webinar Description
Key Takeaways
- Focuses on deception-based active defense for election infrastructure, including voter registration databases and results transmission systems
- Demonstrates how decoy environments detect intrusions without signatures or prior knowledge of attacker tooling
- Addresses threats from both external attackers and insider activity, including automated and nation-state adversaries
- Designed for election bodies, their suppliers, and security teams operating under compressed deployment timelines
About the Webinar
Behind the Ballot Box: Step-by-Step on Defending Elections with Deception is a webinar scheduled for October 20, 2026. Rich Barrell, Product Specialist at CounterCraft, presents a technical walkthrough of deception technology applied to election security. The session addresses the protection of back-end systems that underpin electoral processes, from voter registration databases to results transmission infrastructure and supplier networks.
Deception Technology in Election Defense
The webinar explains how deception-based defense works by drawing attackers into environments that appear genuine but contain no production data. Every action taken within these decoy environments is observed and recorded. This approach produces detection without false positives, since any activity within the deception layer indicates malicious intent by definition.
Automated attackers present a particular vulnerability to deception techniques. Automated agents cannot verify whether an environment is genuine and tend to push deeper into systems they encounter. The webinar will show what an attack looks like from inside a decoy environment and how the resulting threat intelligence, including detailed indicators of compromise, can be generated in real time.
Operational and Intelligence Applications
The session covers how adversary-generated intelligence from deception environments can be used to protect production systems while an attack is still in progress. This intelligence provides actionable data for both internal security teams and law enforcement within minutes of detection. The webinar also addresses deployment models suited to the compressed timelines that election bodies and their suppliers typically face.
Who Should Attend
This webinar is relevant to security professionals responsible for election infrastructure, including those working for government election bodies, technology suppliers serving the electoral sector, and teams concerned with nation-state threats. The content addresses both external intrusion detection and insider threat scenarios across election back-end systems.