Title: Strengthening Cybersecurity Information Sharing and Coordination in Our Ports Act of 2017
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
Strengthening Cybersecurity Information Sharing and Coordination in Our Ports Act of 2017
This bill requires the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to facilitate increased information sharing about cybersecurity among maritime interests.
DHS must:
Through the Coast Guard, DHS must also:
The bill amends the federal shipping codes to include cybersecurity in facility and vessel vulnerability assessments.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2083 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2083

To enhance cybersecurity information sharing and coordination at ports 
             in the United States, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            November 7, 2017

  Ms. Harris (for herself and Mr. Sullivan) introduced the following 
 bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, 
                      Science, and Transportation

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                                 A BILL


 
To enhance cybersecurity information sharing and coordination at ports 
             in the United States, 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 ``Strengthening Cybersecurity 
Information Sharing and Coordination in Our Ports Act of 2017''.

SEC. 2. IMPROVING CYBERSECURITY RISK ASSESSMENTS, INFORMATION SHARING, 
              AND COORDINATION.

    The Secretary of Homeland Security shall--
            (1) develop and implement a maritime cybersecurity risk 
        assessment model within 120 days after the date of the 
        enactment of this Act, consistent with the National Institute 
        of Standards and Technology Framework for Improving Critical 
        Infrastructure Cybersecurity and any update to that document 
        pursuant to Public Law 113-274, to evaluate current and future 
        cybersecurity risks (as such term is defined in section 227 of 
        the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 148));
            (2) evaluate, on a periodic basis but not less often than 
        once every 2 years, the effectiveness of the maritime 
        cybersecurity risk assessment model under paragraph (1);
            (3) seek to ensure participation of at least one 
        information sharing and analysis organization (as such term is 
        defined in section 212 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 
        U.S.C. 131)) representing the maritime community in the 
        National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center, 
        pursuant to subsection (d)(1)(B) of section 227 of such Act;
            (4) establish guidelines for voluntary reporting of 
        maritime-related cybersecurity risks and incidents (as such 
        terms are defined in section 227 of such Act) to the Center (as 
        such term is defined subsection (b) of such section 227), and 
        other appropriate Federal agencies; and
            (5) request the National Maritime Security Advisory 
        Committee established under section 70112 of title 46, United 
        States Code, to report and make recommendations to the 
        Secretary on enhancing the sharing of information related to 
        cybersecurity risks and incidents, consistent with the 
        responsibilities of the Center, between relevant Federal 
        agencies and--
                    (A) State, local, and tribal governments;
                    (B) relevant public safety and emergency response 
                agencies;
                    (C) relevant law enforcement and security 
                organizations;
                    (D) maritime industry;
                    (E) port owners and operators; and
                    (F) terminal owners and operators.

SEC. 3. CYBERSECURITY ENHANCEMENTS TO MARITIME SECURITY ACTIVITIES.

    The Secretary of Homeland Security, acting through the Commandant 
of the Coast Guard, shall direct--
            (1) each Area Maritime Security Advisory Committee 
        established under section 70112 of title 46, United States 
        Code, to facilitate the sharing of cybersecurity risks and 
        incidents to address port-specific cybersecurity risks, which 
        may include the establishment of a working group of members of 
        Area Maritime Security Advisory Committees to address port-
        specific cybersecurity vulnerabilities; and
            (2) that any area maritime transportation security plan and 
        any vessel or facility security plan required under section 
        70103 of title 46, United States Code, approved after the 
        development of the cybersecurity risk assessment model required 
        by paragraph (1) of section 2 include a mitigation plan to 
        prevent, manage, and respond to cybersecurity risks (as such 
        term is defined in section 227 of the Homeland Security Act of 
        2002 (6 U.S.C. 148)).

SEC. 4. VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENTS AND SECURITY PLANS.

    Title 46, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in section 70102(b)(1)(C), by inserting 
        ``cybersecurity,'' after ``physical security,''; and
            (2) in section 70103(c)(3)(C), by striking ``and'' after 
        the semicolon at the end of clause (iv), by redesignating 
        clause (v) as clause (vi), and by inserting after clause (iv) 
        the following:
                    ``(v) prevention, management, and response to 
                cybersecurity risks; and''.
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