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Responsible vulnerability disclosure is becoming an international norm

September 22, 2017  By Shaun Waterman

 

More and more countries are joining the United States in adopting a policy of weighing the pros and cons of responsible vulnerability disclosure, as the public calls for more clarity regarding intelligence agencies and their supposed hoarding of previously undiscovered software flaws.

 

The U.S. started using its own Vulnerability Equities Process in 2010, according to declassified documents, although it didn’t reveal the VEP publicly until 2014 — to help allay suspicions that the National Security Agency might have secretly known about the massive HeartBleed vulnerability.

 

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