*Hope springs eternal...
–Proposed 2010 Budget Allocates US$355 Million for DHS Cyber
Security Efforts
(February 26, 2009)
President Obama's proposed budget for fiscal 2010 includes US $355
million for Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) National
Cybersecurity Division and its efforts as part of the Comprehensive
National Cybersecurity Initiative. The funds would be "targeted to make public- and private-sector cyber infrastructure more resilient and secure." The requested amount marks a 21 percent increase over the US
$294K designated for cyber security in the fiscal 2009 budget.
http://fcw.com/Articles/2009/02/26/2010-budget-cybersecurity.aspx
http://www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20090226_3194.php
[Editor's Note (Pescatore): I hope the bulk of that goes to in creasing the security of public-sector systems, software and services. Especially to accelerate the government focus from reacting to incidents towards preventing them.
(Paller) I have been enormously impressed with the transformation in federal cyber leadership since Admiral Brown came to DHS and Mischel
Kwon took over US-CERT and made it a proactive source of real-time actionable information for the feds, and the Trusted Internet Connection got moving and the Software Assurance Project brought out the Top 25 and
NCSD's helping to tune the CAG - all of which is already starting to make federal cybersecurity measurably better and more proactive.]
(Northcutt): Let's hope they spend it wisely. The URL for the budget is below and page 71 is where the discussion begins. What caught my eye is that in the highlights cyber security comes before terrorism:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/assets/fy2010_new_era/A_New_Era_of_Responsibility2.pdf
