The Cybersecurity 202: The cybersecurity stories that rocked 2020 will pose even bigger challenges in 2021 Joseph Marks
with Tonya Riley
Election security was the cybersecurity story dominating 2020, and it is likely to dominate 2021 as well. That reflects an old saw about cybersecurity that it is a race without a finish line. Some things went well this year: years of tireless work by state and local officials kept November’s presidential election safe from foreign hacking or major technological snafus. But faith in the election was battered by President Trump’s baseless claims that his loss was illegitimate. And the government’s cybersecurity chief, Christopher Krebs, who did more than anyone in the federal government to shepherd states’ election security work, paid with his job when he wouldn’t endorse Trump’s baseless claims.
The Finance 202: Business comes around on unemployment insurance as pandemic endures Tory Newmyer
with Brent D. Griffiths There s a surprising new consensus as lawmakers scramble to reach a deal on an emergency economic relief plan: A proposal to offer $300 per week in enhanced federal unemployment benefits is drawing broad bipartisan support. And it s backed by business groups and left-leaning economists alike. “You don’t want people to think they have to rush back to work because unemployment insurance is not able to provide enough income,” Glenn Spencer, the executive vice president of employment policy at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, tells me. “Some of the jobs that people would be able to get back to in a normal recession aren’t going to be there. So it’s going to take workers longer to adjust to the economy that we’ve got.”