0:49 The time to start, says Professor Richard Harknett, a national cyber strategy expert and chair of UC's Department of Political Science, is now for the 2022 and 2024 elections. "It's going to require leadership both at the individual citizen level all the way up to the new administration and in between," says Harknett. "To intentionally continue to work through all of our different organizations, to not take trust for granted and reach out to those people who have lost it and bring them back into the system." Harknett also studies foreign actors. To keep elections safe and minimize their influence, he says there needs to be better alignment between industry and government through regulatory reforms.