This talk will go into some of challenges, solutions, and stories from securing a campaign for the 2012 US presidential election. Modern US political campaigns are large, sophisticated, and well-funded efforts to communicate with, persuade, and organize national-scale populations. With this complexity and scope comes a number of unique security challenges. The growing importance of technology has necessitated the development of robust and secure solutions that are resilient against a large number of attack vectors. This talk will go into some of challenges, solutions, and stories from securing a campaign for the 2012 US presidential election. The speaker led the application security program for a 2012 US presidential campaign. According to most accounts, this was the first position, in a US campaign, filling a dedicated security role.