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Congress Passes Cyber, Supply Chain Security Legislation

By Cal Biesecker

Thursday, December 20th, 2018

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Congress Passes Cyber, Supply Chain Security Legislation

Low angled view of the U.S. Capitol East Facade Front in Washington, DC.

The House and Senate on Wednesday unanimously passed a legislative vehicle containing several bipartisan bills dealing with cyber security, including one establishing a bug bounty program at the Department of Homeland Security and another to mitigate cyber threats to the federal government’s supply chains for information and communications technology.The SECURE Technology Act (H.R. 7327) includes the Hack the Department of Homeland Security Act of 2018 (S. 1281) and creates a white-hat or ethical hacker program modeled after one in the Defense…

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