Nearly a dozen officials write that Americans deserve to know that the systems and technical protocols the Census Bureau is employing to collect and store information about them are not putting that information at risk.

There’s a bill in the works that would codify the U.S. government’s vulnerabilities equities process into law.

Michael Daniel, the career federal official who served as White House cybersecurity coordinator under President Barack Obama, will helm a nonprofit alliance founded by cybersecurity giants to better share information about cybercrime and other threats.

"The relationship that we want to have with industry, and the private sector, it's weird! What is it?" asked Michael Daniel.

Grant Schneider was also tapped to serve as acting deputy chief information security officer.

Another Shadow Brokers-like incident — in which unprecedented, older software vulnerabilities are indiscriminately posted online for everyone to see — should be expected in the “near future,” said former White House National Security Council Senior Director for Cybersecurity Ari Schwartz.