S.Amdt. 629

SA 629. Mr. WARNER submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
him to the bill S. 1790, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2020 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy,
to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the end of subtitle C of title XVI, add the following:

SEC. ___. PILOT PROGRAM ON CYBER THREAT DETECTION IN A REAL
ENVIRONMENT.

(a) Pilot Program Required.--The Secretary of Defense shall
carry out a pilot program to assess the feasibility and
advisability of using leading commercial technologies to
identify cyber threats within moments and enabling personnel
of the Security Operations Center to investigate issues
almost immediately thereafter and then isolate or remediate
any issues within an hour of detection.
(b) Report.--At the end of the pilot program required by
subsection (a), the Secretary shall submit to the
congressional defense committees a report on the security
outcomes of the pilot program against a control group using
traditional security protocols elsewhere in the Department of
Defense.
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