On March 23rd, 2012, William Jackson reported for Government Computer News on how the DHS will give cybersecurity a funding boost within its overall department funding. Next year the DHS will get $39.5 billion overall, of which $770 million will go towards cybersecurity (up from $325.8 million).
The GCN article laid out how the DHS will use that money:
- $236 million for federal network security (i.e. ensure compliance with FISMA and "improve continuous monitoring of network activity").
- $345 to the National Cybersecurity Protection System. Some of this money will go towards the deployment of Einstein 3, a federal network monitoring system.
- $93 million for US-CERT. US-CERT is the DHS' tiger team; they provide incident response.
- $12.9 million "to increase the cybersecurity workforce," including cyber-education.
- $64.5 million for cybersecurity R/D.
You can find the GCN source article here.
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