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DHS Bug Bounty Pilot Program Legislation Introduced in Senate

By Matthew Beinart

Friday, May 26th, 2017

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DHS Bug Bounty Pilot Program Legislation Introduced in Senate

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Senators Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.) and Rob Portman (R-Ohio) introduced bipartisan legislation last Thursday to establish a bug bounty pilot program for hackers to detect potential cyber vulnerabilities in Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) networks.The Hack Department of Homeland Security Act would establish a program to incentive ethical, white-hat hackers to point out areas of DHS systems susceptible to cyber attacks before they can be exploited.The initiative would follow a similar model to the Department of Defense’s Hack the Pentagon program.…

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