The Committee’s investigation totaled more than three years of investigative activity, more than 200 witness interviews, and more than a million pages of reviewed documents. All five volumes total more than 1300 pages.

You can read “Volume 5: Counterintelligence Threats and Vulnerabilities” here.

Read the Senate Intelligence Committee’s previous reports:

• “Volume I: Russian Efforts Against Election Infrastructure”
• “Volume II: Russia’s Use of Social Media”
• “Volume III: U.S. Government Response to Russian Activities”
• “Volume IV: Review of the Intelligence Community Assessment”
• Additional declassifications of “Volume IV: Review of Intelligence Community Assessment”

Source: SSCI

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“The IAA for Fiscal Year 2021 represents the Senate Intelligence Committee’s strong, bipartisan effort to give our Intelligence Community the resources, authorities, and personnel to protect America’s national security while increasing government efficiency,” Acting Chairman Marco Rubio said. “As a nation, we face ever-expanding threats from China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea. Our legislation is vital to the Intelligence Community, and it provides the men and women who serve our nation the tools they need to keep our country safe. At the same time, our bill represents comprehensive Congressional oversight, ensuring that these tools are executed responsibly and cost-effectively.”

“This bipartisan intelligence authorization bill ensures that the women and men of our intelligence agencies have the resources they need to do their jobs,” said Vice Chairman Mark Warner. “This bill takes key steps to improve our national security, including investments in 5G technology, reforms to our security clearance process, and important protections for whistleblowers to report wrongdoing within the IC.”

The IAA for Fiscal Year 2021 ensures that the Intelligence Community can continue its critical work for our country while Congress continues its oversight, including in the following key areas:

• Confronting our adversaries’ attempts to compromise telecommunications and cybersecurity technology;
• Development and deployment of secure 5G networks based in open-standards to compete with our adversaries;
• Identifying corruption, influence operations, and information suppression by the Chinese government, in particular in this critical time for the people of Hong Kong;
• Uncovering Russian and Eastern European oligarchs’ corruption and illegal activities;
• Protecting against foreign influence threats and election interference on social media platforms;
• Creating Intelligence Community-wide policies to facilitate sharing cleared contractor information with private companies to enhance the effectiveness of insider threat programs;
• Requiring the publication of guidelines for granting, denying, or revoking a security clearance and preventing the revocation or denial of a clearance for reasons of discrimination, political beliefs, or retaliation; and
• Advancing Intelligence Community hiring flexibilities, student loan repayment programs, and child care for IC personnel.

Source: U.S. Senate

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“Protecting the Department of Homeland Security from the cyber threats that it faces every day is critical to maintaining the safety, security, and privacy of millions of Americans,” Senator Hassan said. “The bipartisan Hack DHS Act is vital to those efforts, harnessing the talent and skills of patriotic and ethical hackers across the country to help identify weaknesses in the Department of Homeland Security’s systems and protect their fellow citizens. I am pleased that this commonsense measure passed the Senate, and I thank Senator Portman for being a strong partner as we work to strengthen the safety and security of all Granite Staters and Americans.”

“The networks and systems at DHS are vital to the security of Ohioans and all Americans,” said Senator Portman. “Bug bounty programs are important cybersecurity tools in the private sector and have shown promising results when used by the government. This legislation ensures DHS will execute such a program and reap the cost-effective benefits to the security of their networks and systems. I look forward to continuing to work with Senator Hassan to get this bill to the President’s desk and get DHS moving forward on this important effort.”

As the Department in charge of helping to secure all “.gov” domains, as well as critical infrastructure throughout the country, DHS must ensure that its own networks and information technology are free from unintended or unidentified vulnerabilities. The Hack DHS Act will establish a bug bounty program based on the Department of Defense’s pilot program. Under the bill, payments would be provided to white-hat hackers that identify unique and undiscovered vulnerabilities in DHS’s networks and data systems. These white-hat hackers must submit to a background check to help ensure that these individuals do not pose a threat. Additionally, the DHS Secretary must work with the Attorney General to ensure that participants in the bug bounty program do not face prosecutions for their specific work in the program.

For more information on the bill, click here.

Source: Office of Senator Maggie Hassan

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The United States Senate Office of the Sergeant at Arms (SAA or Senate) through the Chief Information Officer (CIO) is responsible for the Senate IT security. It is a part of the SAA’s mission to provide secure and reliable network services to the U.S. Senate. The SAA IT Security Branch works to protect the security of U.S. Senate information and to maintain the secure operation of the U.S. Senate network infrastructure and its information technology resources.

The Senate has recently improved the network infrastructure to establish a more robust Cyber security capability. The IT Security Branch, with support from its Contractor staff, has been conducting Cyber security operations for the Senate Enterprise. The SAA is now seeking a Contractor to perform threat and intelligence analysis as a complementary effort to the Cyber Security Operations Center (SOC) activities.

The Cyber Threat analysis team is a newly developed team in the IT Security Branch focused solely on the analysis of threat/intelligence based products to maximize the ability of the IT Security Branch to perform pro-active Cyber Security operations. The SAA Cyber Threat analysis team requires support for its mission to leverage industry expertise, state of the art technology, tactics, techniques and procedures to better understand the Cyber adversary; stay informed of current vulnerabilities and exploits in the wild; propose mitigation strategies; determine likelihood of a vulnerability being exploited; and understand the capabilities of the Cyber adversary.

The SAA will evaluate contractors and their ability to establish a team to assist the SAA Cyber Threat analysis team in the performance of its tasks. The Contractor Cyber Threat Analysis Team will collaborate with government, commercial and private organizations to perform analysis on multi-source intelligence to promote a proactive, predictive and adaptive approach to Cyber security for the U.S. Senate. Additionally, this Team will be required to both consume threat data for analytics and produce the necessary counter-measures to deny, disrupt and degrade Cyber adversary actions. This Team will also provide metrics, reports and presentations when directed to advise leadership of Cyber adversary activities.

Full information is available here.

Source: FedBizOpps

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