
The Department of Homeland Security is working with the Office of Management and Budget on policy initiatives to push federal civilian agencies toward setting up their own vulnerability disclosure programs (VDP), a top cyber security agency official said Thursday. Chris Krebs, director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency within DHS, told reporters the department is looking for agencies to install VDP programs that could utilize independent researchers to assist in finding flaws in their networks. “Obviously we think it’s…