President Obama’s top cybersecurity adviser outlines circumstances in which the U.S. would not disclose software vulnerabilities. Michael Daniel says the economy would not function without a reliable Internet and connected systems. Daniel says legitimate reasons exist not to disclose vulnerabilities promptly. Daniel: “Weighing these tradeoffs is not easy, and so we have established principles to guide agency decision-making in this area” Daniel says stockpiling a huge amount of vulnerabilities that leave the Internet vulnerable would not be in the national interest.”]
Source: https://www.govinfosecurity.com/white-house-policy-on-disclosing-cyberflaws-a-6798