President Obama Unveils $19 Billion Plan To Overhaul U.S. Cybersecurity

erier2003 writes: President Obama on Tuesday unveiled an expansive plan to bolster government and private-sector cybersecurity by establishing a federal coordinator for cyber efforts, proposing a commission to study future work, and asking Congress for funds to overhaul dangerously obsolete computer systems. His newly signed executive orders contain initiatives to better prepare college students for cybersecurity careers, streamline federal computer networks, and certify Internet-connected devices as secure. The Cybersecurity National Action Plan also establishes a Federal Privacy Council (to review how the government stores Americans' personal information), creates the post of Chief Information Security Officer, and establishes a Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity.

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Let me be clear

[erapert]

"I only intend to improve the cybersecurity of the government while doing everything I can to undermine the security of regular peon-- er-- people."

Re:Obongo

[__aaclcg7560]

Overlooking the fact that George W. front loaded the debt for Obama by not paying for Medicare reform and tax cuts, and keeping two wars off the books.

Re:Gridlock

[rtb61]

Nope, works like this. When you stop spending money on maintenance to taking stupid short right wing cuts you end up poisoning 90,000 citizens with lead. Across the board the US has failed to spend money on maintenance of infrastructure as a result of a crazy idiotic shift to the right (factually brought about by lead poisoning, seriously) and now has to spend trillions of dollars to catch up on infrastructure maintenance or face infrastructure collapse across the board.

So yeah, they have to build up tech agencies from the ground up because of all the failed idiotic contracting and outsourcing that went on (all right wing, profits first, profits last and profits everything in between, any provision of service is purely by accident and the board will be firing those responsible because it likely cost money and short changed profit). Austerity produces nothing but guess what austerity across the board except of course for the insane psychopaths at the top.