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handle is hein.congrec/cybvyrem0001 and id is 1 raw text is: \ Congressional Budget Office / Cost Estimate August 1, 2019 By Fiscal Year, Millions of Dollars 2019 2019-2024 2019-2029 Direct Spending (Outlays) 0 0 0 Revenues Increase or Decrease (-) in the Deficit 0 0 0 0 0 0 H.R. 3710 would authorize the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to disseminate information to the public about vulnerabilities in the software and hardware of information systems. The bill also would authorize DHS to establish an award program to encourage independent researchers to identify and report vulnerabilities and solutions for those vulnerabilities to the department. DHS is already performing many of the cybersecurity activities that would be authorized by H.R. 3710. The department manages several programs that provide services and information to help system administrators, software manufacturers, and the general public identify cyber vulnerabilities. For example, the DHS Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures program helps software vendors identify risks and communicate to their customers how vulnerabilities affect their products and services. To estimate the cost of providing incentive payments to independent researchers, CBO used information about similar programs of other federal agencies. For example, the General Services Administration (GSA) offers payments to individual researchers through its Bug Bounty program for each vulnerability identified. Those payments range from $150 to $5,000 based on how critical the potential target is to GSA's operations. On the basis of budget data from those related programs, CBO estimates that making incentive payments to independent researchers for identifying vulnerabilities would cost $11 million each year. CBO expects that DHS would be ready to implement the program beginning in 2021. Thus, See also CBO's Cost Estimates Explained, www.cbo.gov/publication/54437; How CBO Prepares Cost Estimates, www.cbo.gov/publication/53519; and Glossary, www.cbo.gov/publication/42904.

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