President Obama Proposes More Than $19 Billion for New Cybersecurity Initiatives


“It is no secret that too often government IT is like an Atari game in an Xbox world.” —US President Barack Obama, WSJ Opinion

The White House announced the Cybersecurity National Action Plan (CNAP) on February 8 in recognition of the threat that cybersecurity poses to the United States. This follows the passage of the Cybersecurity Act of 2015. President Barack Obama has proposed that $19 billion of the $4.1 trillion budget proposed for the 2017 fiscal year be set aside to fund this initiative (up $5 billion from the $14 billion requested for the 2016 fiscal year).

Highlights of the proposed CNAP include the following:


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