Title: Public-Private Cybersecurity Cooperation Act
Policy area: Emergency Management

Summary:
Public-Private Cybersecurity Cooperation Act
This bill directs the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to: (1) establish a policy applicable to individuals and entities that reports security vulnerabilities on DHS public websites, (2) develop a process for mitigation or remediation of security vulnerabilities that are reported, (3) consult with specified federal departments and nongovernmental security researchers in developing the policy, and (4) submit the policy and the remediation process to Congress. DHS must make such policy publicly available.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3707 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 3707

      To direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to establish a 
  vulnerability disclosure policy for Department of Homeland Security 
               internet websites, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            December 5, 2018

Mr. Portman (for himself and Ms. Hassan) introduced the following bill; 
which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security 
                        and Governmental Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
      To direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to establish a 
  vulnerability disclosure policy for Department of Homeland Security 
               internet websites, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Public-Private Cybersecurity 
Cooperation Act''.

SEC. 2. DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY DISCLOSURE OF SECURITY 
              VULNERABILITIES.

    (a) Definitions.--In this section:
            (1) Appropriate information system.--The term ``appropriate 
        information system'' means an information system that the 
        Secretary of Homeland Security selects for inclusion under the 
        vulnerability disclosure policy required by subsection (b).
            (2) Department.--The term ``Department'' means the 
        Department of Homeland Security.
            (3) Information system.--The term ``information system'' 
        has the meaning given that term by section 3502(12) of title 
        44, United States Code.
            (4) Secretary.--The term ``Secretary'' means the Secretary 
        of Homeland Security.
            (5) Security vulnerability.--The term ``security 
        vulnerability'' has the meaning given that term in section 
        102(17) of the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015 (6 
        U.S.C. 1501(17)), in information technology.
    (b) Vulnerability Disclosure Policy.--The Secretary shall establish 
a policy applicable to individuals, organizations, and companies that 
report security vulnerabilities on appropriate information systems of 
Department. Such policy shall include each of the following:
            (1) The appropriate information systems of the Department 
        that individuals, organizations, and companies may use to 
        discover and report security vulnerabilities on appropriate 
        information systems.
            (2) The conditions and criteria under which individuals, 
        organizations, and companies may operate to discover and report 
        security vulnerabilities.
            (3) How individuals, organizations, and companies may 
        disclose to the Department security vulnerabilities discovered 
        on appropriate information systems of the Department.
            (4) The ways in which the Department may communicate with 
        individuals, organizations, and companies that report security 
        vulnerabilities.
            (5) The process the Department shall use for public 
        disclosure of reported security vulnerabilities.
    (c) Remediation Process.--The Secretary shall develop a process for 
the Department to address the mitigation or remediation of the security 
vulnerabilities reported through the policy developed in subsection 
(b).
    (d) Consultation.--
            (1) In general.--In developing the security vulnerability 
        disclosure policy under subsection (b), the Secretary shall 
        consult with each of the following:
                    (A) The Attorney General regarding how to ensure 
                that individuals, organizations, and companies that 
                comply with the requirements of the policy developed 
                under subsection (b) are protected from prosecution 
                under section 1030 of title 18, United States Code, 
                civil lawsuits, and similar provisions of law with 
                respect to specific activities authorized under the 
                policy.
                    (B) The Secretary of Defense and the Administrator 
                of General Services regarding lessons that may be 
                applied from existing vulnerability disclosure 
                policies.
                    (C) Non-governmental security researchers.
            (2) Nonapplicability of faca.--The Federal Advisory 
        Committee Act (5 U.S.C. App.) shall not apply to any 
        consultation under this section.
    (e) Public Availability.--The Secretary shall make the policy 
developed under subsection (b) publicly available.
    (f) Submission to Congress.--
            (1) Disclosure policy and remediation process.--Not later 
        than 90 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the 
        Secretary shall submit to Congress a copy of the policy 
        required under subsection (b) and the remediation process 
        required under subsection (c).
            (2) Report and briefing.--
                    (A) Report.--Not later than 1 year after 
                establishing the policy required under subsection (b), 
                the Secretary shall submit to Congress a report on such 
                policy and the remediation process required under 
                subsection (c).
                    (B) Annual briefings.--One year after the date of 
                the submission of the report under subparagraph (A), 
                and annually thereafter for each of the next 3 years, 
                the Secretary shall provide to Congress a briefing on 
                the policy required under subsection (b) and the 
                process required under subsection (c).
                    (C) Matters for inclusion.--The report required 
                under subparagraph (A) and the briefings required under 
                subparagraph (B) shall include each of the following 
                with respect to the policy required under subsection 
                (b) and the process required under subsection (c) for 
                the period covered by the report or briefing, as the 
                case may be:
                            (i) The number of unique security 
                        vulnerabilities reported.
                            (ii) The number of previously unknown 
                        security vulnerabilities mitigated or 
                        remediated.
                            (iii) The number of unique individuals, 
                        organizations, and companies that reported 
                        security vulnerabilities.
                            (iv) The average length of time between the 
                        reporting of security vulnerabilities and 
                        mitigation or remediation of such 
                        vulnerabilities.
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