The House has passed the Cybersecurity Vulnerability Remediation Act, which would require DHS and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency to disseminate and share its cybersecurity mitigation protocols with other agencies, industry, academia and other sectors. The bill was sponsored by Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX).
CISA would be charged with developing and distributing “playbooks” detailing the most critical known vulnerabilities as well as strategies to thwart them. It would empower the Science and Technology Directorate of DHS to pay private companies and academics to develop their own remediation solutions. It would also require the director of CISA to submit annual reports to Congress on how it is coordinating vulnerability disclosure programs with industry and other stakeholders.