[x-pubpol] USA: House Committee Approves information sharing cybersecurity bill

[Joly MacFie]

HR 3674 - http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c112:H.R.3674:

The House Homeland Security Committee approved the bill today.  The
main focus is on creating an information sharing organization, a
non-profit with government and private sector representation.  There
is a section on cybersecurity R&D, and it indicates DHS sponsored
research should include work on the following topics:

`(1) advance the development and accelerate the deployment of more
secure versions of fundamental Internet protocols and architectures,
including for the domain name system and routing protocols;
`(2) improve, create, and advance the research and development of
techniques and technologies for proactive detection and identification
of threats, attacks, and acts of terrorism before they occur;
`(3) advance technologies for detecting attacks or intrusions,
including real-time monitoring and real-time analytic technologies;
`(4) improve and create mitigation and recovery methodologies,
including techniques and policies for real-time containment of attacks
and development of resilient networks and systems;
`(5) develop and support infrastructure and tools to support
cybersecurity research and development efforts, including modeling,
test beds, and data sets for assessment of new cybersecurity
technologies;
`(6) assist in the development and support of technologies to reduce
vulnerabilities in process control systems;
`(7) develop and support cyber forensics and attack attribution;
`(8) test, evaluate, and facilitate the transfer of technologies
associated with the engineering of less vulnerable software and
securing the information technology software development lifecycle;
and
`(9) ensure new cybersecurity technologies are scientifically and
operationally validated.

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