Germany’s top cybersecurity authority pledged on Tuesday to do its “utmost” to secure the electoral process after political leaders reached a deal to hold national elections in February, seven months sooner than initially planned. Claudia Plattner, president of the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI), said in Berlin: “It is tight – we will do our utmost to secure this electoral process as well as possible.” The authority’s work involves both technical safeguarding and combating disinformation, Plattner said as she presented its yearly report. The BSI must inform voters that “not ever…