No matter how visible an organization is in the public spotlight, whether it’s in the heat of a hotly contested election cycle or going about its day-to-day business, the potential risks within their online ecosystems do not go away. Only a consistent and methodical approach to discovering and managing their ecosystem is the best path to a winning cybersecurity posture.
Republicans
The Republican party maintains the .GOP top-level domain (TLD), but most of its assets operate under a range of other TLDs.
The assets within the Republican party ecosystem are more compartmentalized and have lower connectivity. (11.4 connections per asset)
In general, the Republican party relies on a low number of external infrastructures in every category: Web, Cloud, DNS and PKI.
In the Cloud, the Republican party relies mainly on Amazon’s AWS public cloud infrastructure and utilizes multiple CDN and web firewalls to improve performance and security.