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Former Buttigieg CISO urges DNC to coordinate information sharing between campaigns

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Over the last year, Democratic presidential campaigns have had difficulty sharing threat data between one another, according to the former security boss for Pete Buttigieg’s campaign, raising concerns about the party’s ability to fend off possible interference ahead of the November elections. Mick Baccio, who spent roughly five months working for the now-defunct Buttigieg campaign, told CyberScoop that his team tried sharing information with other campaigns that could have helped officials protect themselves from hackers. The effort was hampered, he said, by a shortage of qualified security staffers on other campaigns, and the lack of a formal information sharing process. Baccio resigned from the campaign in January over philosophical differences. “It’s not that there’s not a want to share. It’s ‘I don’t know who to talk to,’” he said during an interview Wednesday at the Splunk Government Summit in Washington, D.C.. “I don’t know of a formal mechanism; whether it’s through the DNC, DCCC, […]

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Pete Buttigieg’s campaign CISO has resigned

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The Chief Information Security Officer for Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg’s campaign, Mick Baccio, has resigned, CyberScoop has learned. Baccio, who has been with the Buttigieg campaign since last August, told CyberScoop he left because he no longer agreed with the way senior leadership in the campaign was envisioning campaign cybersecurity. “[I left due to] fundamental philosophical differences with the campaign management regarding the architecture and scope of the information security program,” Mick Baccio told CyberScoop. Baccio declined to share details about what exactly led to his resignation. The campaign did not return a request for comment. Baccio’s departure may come as a blow to the campaign’s cybersecurity operations, as concerns about foreign interference in elections mount. Since joining, Baccio has been responsible for maintaining the campaign’s cyber hygiene, use of encrypted chat applications and two-factor authentication, and ultimately making sure the kind of breach that happened at the Democratic […]

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