Former Pennsylvania Secretary of the Commonwealth Kathy Boockvar said the Maricopa County recount is "the very opposite of what election officials around the country have been working to do."

The cybersecurity association for state and local governments has swelled as the Center for Internet Security, the nonprofit that runs it, marks 20 years.

A senior Department Homeland Security official said "the engagement was great" with state and local officials on Election Day.

The director of the information-sharing organization for election officials said preparations for Election Day are unfolding just as planned.

State IT agencies received alerts about threats against voting systems, but often did not share with election officials, the Senate Intelligence Committee said.

Some states are now using a software-based version of the Albert sensor, a device election officials use to detect malicious network activity.

The group, which analyzes state and local governments' network activity, said new technology was needed when it began collecting petabytes of data.

The relationship between state and federal officials has improved, but there are still plenty of challenges in securing election systems across the country, speakers at an NGA conference said.

Ben Spear, executive director of the Election Infrastructure Information Sharing and Analysis Center, shares how the organization's first seven months have prepared the nation for Election Day.