Department of Defense Cyber Crime Center's Vulnerability Disclosure Program Partners With George Mason University

Over the last two years, the Department of Defense's Cyber Crime Center Vulnerability Disclosure Program, or VDP, has grown substantially, both in size and in public recognition. For its efforts throughout the 2022 Defense Industrial Base-VDP Pilot, the program earned a Cyber and IT Excellence Teams Award from the Office of the Department of Defense Chief Information Officer. The overwhelming success of the pilot produced a scalability challenge. Increased demand for the program's services necessitated an uptick in workforce requirements. Identifying publicly accessible assets to automate these processes, while useful, is time-consuming and labor-intensive. Luckily, through the National Secu...