Government’s Cyber Monitoring Program Would Become Law Under House Bill

NextGov: At least one lawmaker is a fan of one of the Homeland Security Department’s governmentwide cybersecurity initiatives and has introduced legislation to ensure it sticks around and evolves along with private-sector technology.

Rep. John Ratcliffe, R-Texas, Wednesday introduced the Advancing Cybersecurity Diagnostics and Mitigation Act, which would codify the Homeland Security Department’s Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation, or CDM program, a suite of tools for agencies to monitor malicious traffic and hacking attempts.

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