Department of Homeland Security CISO Jeff Eisensmith said the federal government needs to establish something similar to the GSA government tech startup.

GSA Technology Transformation Service Commissioner Rob Cook told CyberScoop that the agency was working to reform the IT security rules which 18F's leadership flouted.

Auditors discovered that 27 members of the 18F team routinely used personal email accounts to send work-related emails, without copies being forwarded to their official work accounts. Among them were the then-Technology Transformation Service Commissioner Phaedra Chrousos.

GSA — specifically 18F — has been toying around with the idea of a bug bounty program in some capacity for quite a while.