Sec. 614. Report on cybersecurity threats to seaports of the United States and maritime shipping

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Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Under Secretary of Homeland Security for Intelligence and Analysis, in consultation with the Director of National Intelligence, and consistent with the protection of sources and methods, shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report on the cybersecurity threats to, and the cyber vulnerabilities within, the software, communications networks, computer networks, or other systems employed by— entities conducting significant operations at seaports in the United States; the maritime shipping concerns of the United States; and entities conducting significant operations at transshipment points in the United States.

The report under subsection

(a)shall include the following: A description of any recent and significant cyberattacks or cybersecurity threats directed against software, communications networks, computer networks, or other systems employed by the entities and concerns described in paragraphs

(1)through

(3)of subsection (a). An assessment of— any planned cyberattacks directed against such software, networks, and systems; any significant vulnerabilities to such software, networks, and systems; and how such entities and concerns are mitigating such vulnerabilities. An update on the status of the efforts of the Coast Guard to include cybersecurity concerns in the National Response Framework, Emergency Support Functions, or both, relating to the shipping or ports of the United States. In this section, the term appropriate congressional committees means— the congressional intelligence committees; the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs and the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate; and the Committee on Homeland Security and the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives.