Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, a massive breach of the State Department's unclassified computer network in 2014 exposed grave weaknesses in its information technology systems. And in the years since that attack, problems have continued to mount. The Department's cybersecurity response program received a D rating, the lowest of any agency, on its Federal Information Security Management Act report card in 2017. And just this month, the Department revealed that it recently suffered a breach of its unclassified email system, which exposed the personal information of some of its employees. Mr. Speaker, more must be done to ensure cost-effective solutions to the Department's information technology security challenges. The Hack Your State Department Act, authored by my Foreign Affairs Committee colleagues Ted Lieu and Ted Yoho, will help address cybersecurity gaps at the Department. This bill will crowdsource solutions and offer a layered approach to information technology security, consistent with the 2017 Report to the President on Federal IT Modernization. This bill achieves this in two ways: First, the bill establishes a vulnerability disclosure process to give security researchers clear guidelines for discovering and reporting cybersecurity vulnerabilities. This is considered a best practice in the private sector and, frankly, should be done in all government agencies.…”