Obama’s $19B cybersecurity plan takes aim at cybercrime, underscores skills gap

President Obama’s new national cybersecurity plan will beef up cyberdefense, but does it do enough to close the cyber-skills gap? Also in Searchlight: The Obama family’s Wi-Fi is patchy; Twitter posts lackluster earnings. 

After a string of high-profile cyberattacks on private-sector companies such as Sony and Target and the highest tiers of the U.S. government, President Obama, in the last year of his presidency, is making a bold statement about the escalation of cyber-threats: a $19 billion cybersecurity plan that includes the appointment of a federal chief information security officer.

Security experts are lauding theCybersecurity National Action Plan(CNAP), the highlight of Obama’s budget proposal for the 2017 fiscal year, as a step in the right direction.

“It demonstrates the urgent need for nationwide support and coordination at the highest levels on cybersecurity issues,” Shuman Ghosemajumder, vice president of product at Shape Security, told me in a message. For the full article click here 

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