The president of the Superior Electoral Court (TSE), Minister Luis Roberto Barroso, will present the result of the Public Security Test (TPS) of the electronic voting and counting system to the press, this Monday (29), at 4 pm. According to the TSE, the test, which this year reached its sixth edition, is “purposed to identify vulnerabilities related to violation of the integrity or anonymity of votes in an election.”
The work was completed this Saturday (27). For six days, 26 information technology professionals carried out attacks on equipment and systems developed for the 2022 General Elections, in order to detect possible vulnerabilities in the voting and counting system in time to be corrected for the next election. “Thus, of the 29 attack plans presented by the groups, only five of them were concluded with relevant findings.”
The Court’s Information Technology Secretary, Júlio Valente, said the test was one of the most productive since the Electoral Court began, in 2009, to submit electoral systems to public tests.
“We had a record number of test plans and researchers who came to contribute to the maturing of systems security, deepening the collaborative nature of the event: Electoral Justice and society hand in hand for increasingly safe and auditable elections”, he said.
The TPS, according to the TSE, “is a permanent event in the preparation calendar for each election and takes place, preferably, in the year before the election, in an environment prepared at the TSE headquarters, in Brasília”.
*With information from the TSE
