House Panel Passes Bills to Reorganize DHS Cyber Team and Collect Zero-Day Info

Nextgov: The House Homeland Security Committee forwarded legislation Wednesday to reorganize and clarify the Homeland Security Department’s cybersecurity operations.

The committee also forwarded a bill requiring a DHS report on when and how the government discloses newfound hackable computer vulnerabilities.

Similar legislation to the DHS reorganization was scuttled last year by jurisdictional disputes between various congressional committees that control portions of the department's cyber mission.

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