Media Coverage
Source: Law360
Media Coverage
02.09.16
In its final budget proposal, the Obama administration proposed a $19 billion budget for cybersecurity in 2017. The proposed budget represents a 35-percent increase from current funding levels and would finance projects such as modernizing the government’s outdated information technology infrastructure and creating the new position of federal chief information security officer.
In addition to the budget proposal, the president also issued a pair of executive orders that some predict will further strengthen the growing alliance between the public and private sectors by creating a permanent federal privacy council that will bring together privacy officials from across the government to help ensure the implementation of more strategic and comprehensive federal privacy guidelines.
While the budget proposal and accompanying executive orders will undoubtedly provide a boost to the nation’s cybersecurity framework, attorneys caution that gaps will remain and vulnerabilities are likely to persist.
“No matter how much is spent by the U.S. government on cybersecurity, there will always be an adversary who will find a way to penetrate the defenses,” said Global Security Services partner Brian Finch. “This is a good start and the right move by the Obama administration, but proposing a big budget number by no means guarantees increased security.”
Read full coverage of the cybersecurity proposal on Law360.