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.