DHS budget would double cyber spending to $769 million

[InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>]

http://www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20120213_7454.php

By Aliya Sternstein
Nextgov
02/13/2012

The Homeland Security Department nearly doubled its 2013 funding request 
for cybersecurity in an otherwise slimmed-down budget.

There is bipartisan support for improving computer network defenses, so 
the outlook may be positive for obtaining much of the proposed $769 
million from Congress. The funding would go toward the National Cyber 
Security Division for protecting federal networks and coordinating with 
the private sector on safeguarding critical infrastructure systems such 
as utility grids.

In 2011, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano asked for $459 for 
the division. The Infrastructure Protection and Programs Directorate, 
which oversees the program and other cyber-related initiatives, also 
would be boosted from $888.2 million in estimated spending this year to 
$1.2 billion in fiscal 2013. By comparison, the Pentagon has asked for 
only a $200 million increase over last year's $3.2 billion cyber 
request.

"Essential services, ranging from disaster assistance to Social Security 
to national defense . . . rely on a safe, secure and resilient 
government information and communications infrastructure," President 
Obama stated in his budget. "Threats to this infrastructure -- whether 
from criminal elements or nation-states -- continue to grow in number 
and sophistication, creating the potential that essential services could 
be degraded or interrupted, and confidential information stolen or 
compromised, with serious effects."

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