Terms Used In Michigan Laws 18.230

  • advisor: means an individual who has entered into a volunteer agreement with the department to serve as a nondeployable advisor in the Michigan cyber civilian corps. See Michigan Laws 18.222
  • Advisory board: means the Michigan cyber civilian corps advisory board created under section 9. See Michigan Laws 18.222
  • Chief information officer: means the individual within the department designated by the governor as the chief information officer for this state. See Michigan Laws 18.222
  • Client: means a municipal, educational, nonprofit, or critical infrastructure organization that has requested and is using the rapid response assistance of the Michigan cyber civilian corps under the direction of the department. See Michigan Laws 18.222
  • Cybersecurity incident: means an event occurring on or conducted through a computer network that actually or imminently jeopardizes the integrity, confidentiality, or availability of computers, information or communications systems or networks, physical or virtual infrastructure controlled by computers or information systems, or information resident on any of these. See Michigan Laws 18.222
  • Department: means the department of technology, management, and budget. See Michigan Laws 18.222
  • Freedom of Information Act: A federal law that mandates that all the records created and kept by federal agencies in the executive branch of government must be open for public inspection and copying. The only exceptions are those records that fall into one of nine exempted categories listed in the statute. Source: OCC
  • Michigan cyber civilian corps: means the program established by this act under which civilian volunteers who have expertise in addressing cybersecurity incidents may volunteer at the invitation of the department to provide rapid response assistance to a municipal, educational, nonprofit, or critical infrastructure organization in need of expert assistance during a cybersecurity incident. See Michigan Laws 18.222
  • Michigan cyber civilian corps volunteer: means an individual who has entered into a volunteer agreement with the department to serve as a deployable volunteer in the Michigan cyber civilian corps. See Michigan Laws 18.222
  • person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, as well as to individuals. See Michigan Laws 8.3l
  (1) After consultation with the advisory board, the chief information officer shall do all of the following:
  (a) Approve the set of tools that the Michigan cyber civilian corps may use in response to a cybersecurity incident.
  (b) Determine the standards of expertise necessary for an individual to become a member of the Michigan cyber civilian corps.
  (c) Establish and maintain a formal process to track volunteer and advisor trainings and compliance with standards as determined by the department.
  (2) After consultation with the advisory board, the department shall publish guidelines for the operation of the Michigan cyber civilian corps program. At a minimum, the published guidelines must include the following:
  (a) An explanation of the standard the department will use to determine whether an individual may serve as a Michigan cyber civilian corps volunteer and an explanation of the process by which an individual may become a Michigan cyber civilian corps volunteer.
  (b) An explanation of the requirements the department will impose for a client to receive the assistance of the Michigan cyber civilian corps and an explanation of the process by which a client may request and receive the assistance of the Michigan cyber civilian corps.
  (c) An explanation of the process by which the Michigan cyber civilian corps will select and prioritize which prospective clients should receive assistance.
  (3) The department may enter into contracts with clients as a condition to providing assistance through the Michigan cyber civilian corps.
  (4) The department may provide appropriate training to individuals who wish to participate in the Michigan cyber civilian corps and to existing Michigan cyber civilian corps volunteers and advisors.
  (5) The department may provide compensation for actual and necessary travel and subsistence expenses incurred by Michigan cyber civilian corps volunteers on a deployment at the discretion of the department.
  (6) The department may establish a fee schedule for clients that wish to use the assistance of the Michigan cyber civilian corps. The department may recoup expenses through the fees but may not generate a profit.
  (7) Information voluntarily given to the Michigan cyber command center or obtained under this act that would identify or provide a means of identifying a person that may, as a result of disclosure of the information, become a victim of a cybersecurity incident or that would disclose a person’s cybersecurity plans or cybersecurity-related practices, procedures, methods, results, organizational information system infrastructure, hardware, or software is exempt from disclosure under the freedom of information act, 1976 PA 442, MCL 15.231 to 15.246.