New Congress starts strong on cyber

The 116th Congress came out of the gate quickly on cybersecurity issues, passing two cyber-related bills in the last month. One creates a “bug bounty” program at the State Department to encourage researchers to find and report vulnerabilities on the department’s computer networks. The other increases the authority of the federal chief information security officer to order cybersecurity improvements across all civilian government networks.

Both bills cleared the House but not the Senate in the last Congress.