§1522 — Title 6 Domestic Security | U.S. Code

Summary

The Secretary must add advanced network security tools, including commercial and free/open-source options, to watch for and stop intrusions and unusual activity. The Director will make a plan and the Secretary must make sure every agency uses those tools. The Director and Secretary must update government-wide policies, brief the right congressional committees, and change the security measures under section 3554 of title 44 to include intrusion detection and response times. They must put more cybersecurity metrics on federal performance websites and, when possible, show data for department components, small agencies, and micro-agencies. These rules do not apply to the Department of Defense, national security systems, or the intelligence community.

Title 6, §1522

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(a)(1)The Secretary shall include, in the efforts of the Department to continuously diagnose and mitigate cybersecurity risks, advanced network security tools to improve visibility of network activity, including through the use of commercial and free or open source tools, and to detect and mitigate intrusions and anomalous activity.

(2)The Director shall develop and the Secretary shall implement a plan to ensure that each agency utilizes advanced network security tools, including those described in paragraph (1), to detect and mitigate intrusions and anomalous activity.

(b)The Director and the Secretary, in consultation with appropriate agencies, shall—

(1)review and update Government-wide policies and programs to ensure appropriate prioritization and use of network security monitoring tools within agency networks; and

(2)brief appropriate congressional committees on such prioritization and use.

(c)The Secretary, in collaboration with the Director, shall review and update the metrics used to measure security under section 3554 of title 44 to include measures of intrusion and incident detection and response times.

(d)The Director, in consultation with the Secretary, shall increase transparency to the public on agency cybersecurity posture, including by increasing the number of metrics available on Federal Government performance websites and, to the greatest extent practicable, displaying metrics for department components, small agencies, and micro-agencies.

(e)

(f)The requirements under this section shall not apply to the Department of Defense, a national security system, or an element of the intelligence community.

Editorial Notes

Codification Section is comprised of section 224 of title II of div. N of Pub. L. 114–113. Subsec. (e) of section 224 of title II of div. N of Pub. L. 114–113 amended section 3553 of Title 44, Public Printing and Documents.

§1522 Advanced Internal Defenses

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