This morning the House Homeland Security Committee announced
that it would be conducting a mark-up hearing for five pieces of legislation
including:
• H.R 6620, Protecting Critical
Infrastructure Against Drones and Emerging Threats Act;
• HR 6735, To direct the Secretary
of Homeland Security to establish a vulnerability disclosure policy for
Department of Homeland Security internet websites, and for other purposes; and
The official copy of HR 6620
just recently became available and I have just glanced through it at this
point; hopefully I’ll get a chance to review it here before Thursday. The quick
glance that I have done indicates that this is a ‘collect information and
report to Congress’ type of bill, rather than something that will authorized
any sort of action similar to S
2836.
The official copy of HR
6735 is not yet available, but a Committee Print is. There is not much in
this bill of specific interest to readers of this blog beyond the fact that it
uses the definition of ‘security vulnerability’ from 6
USC 1501 which is, in turn, based upon the ICS-inclusive definition of
information system while the bill uses the IT-restrictive definition of ‘information
system’ from 44
USC 3502.
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