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The action, the first of several planned steps by the federal government, follows the ransomware hack of the Colonial Pipeline.
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The agency said the U.S. system was prepared to handle the process of questioning the outcome of an election.
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A bulletin from the FBI and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency describes a broad ongoing attempt to compromise American networks, including "some risk" to elections information.
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Cybersecurity experts say the origin of the messages remains unknown and may be the product of a foreign disinformation effort.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and others rebuked President Trump's equivocation about whether he might transfer power peacefully against a backdrop of uncertainty about the ongoing election.