National Crisis Response Clearinghouse

5. Develop a national crisis response clearinghouse.

By September 1994, NIST, in coordination with OMB and with technical
assistance from NSA, should promulgate better security information to
the existing group of agency crisis response teams. This clearinghouse
should address security problems including collection, analysis, and
technical vulnerability assessment. It would also disseminate
information about incidents governmentwide. The mission of this
clearinghouse would be to serve as a broker of computer security crisis
information and of computer security resources. This can be
accomplished by expanding the role of the NIST program and by
formalizing Memoranda of Agreement that facilitate networking and
coordination among various existing independent crisis response bodies.