WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is creating a new high-level federal official to co-ordinate cybersecurity across civilian agencies and to work with military and intelligence counterparts, as part of its 2017 budget proposal announced Tuesday.
The $19-billion increase in cybersecurity funding across all government agencies — up more than from 35 per cent from last year — is entitled the “Cybersecurity National Action Plan” and is an effort touted by the White House as the “capstone” of seven years of often faltering attempts to build a cohesive, broad federal cybersecurity response. Measures include more cybersecurity training for the private sector, emphasizing multi-factor authentication on tax data and government benefits and efforts to reduce the use of Social Security numbers as identifiers.
The tasking of a single high-level official with tracking down cyber intruders in federal government networks establishes a position long in place at companies in the private sector. The lack of such a government role has been especially notable after hackers stole the personal information of 21 million Americans, whose information was housed at the Office of Personnel Management. The U.S. believes the hack was a Chinese espionage operation. For the full article click here
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Nice to know that government is ready to do something in order to prevent cyber-terrorism. I am afraid that their activity might violate private space of simple taxpayers rather then terrorists. It is also interesting for if them will be able to access to business virtual data rooms like Ideals.
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