Image from Top NewsDefense Cybersecurity Budget Request Likely A Third More Than Reported -- Nextgov
A government research company estimates that about a third of the Defense Department's $4 billion request for spending on IT security is included in general spending on various departmental programs and not coded specifically as spent on information systems security, making it difficult to track the Pentagon's total cybersecurity spending, according to a report released on Monday.
More than $1 billion of Defense's IT security budget is embedded in106 information technology programs and not specifically identified in the department's fiscal 2009 IT security budget request, according to a report issued by Government Insights, an IDC company that focuses on the federal IT market.
Of the more than 2,000 line items in Defense's fiscal 2009 IT budget request, 52 are coded specifically for information systems security, totaling $2.9 billion, the report noted. Funding for the highly confidential Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative, which the Bush administration began putting together in 2007, is likely contained in one or more of the programs, because there is no separate line in the budget for the initiative, the report concluded.
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My Comment: National security will trump transparency in this case. Too bad, this is my area of expertise, and I would love to know what steps are being taken to protect our computer networks.
The increase in the budget surprises me. I expected it to be much larger than what is being published.
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