The following checklist was designed to help election security officials, and their IT teams quickly review existing cybersecurity practices to protect against some of the most common threats like ransomware or distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks and take steps to enhance your organization’s cybersecurity readiness and resilience throughout this election cycle. This checklist provides a series of questions to guide the decision-making necessary to prepare for potential cybersecurity incidents. By answering these questions, elections personnel and their IT teams will be better positioned to assess their current cybersecurity posture against common threats and identify additional actions that may be taken