From: Federal Times
Government shutdown and budgeting debates hurt agencies’ ability to adequately protect their networks, because they lose time to procure necessary technologies, according to Trey Hodgkins, senior vice president for public sector at the Information Technology Alliance for Public Sector.
As Congress looks likely to pass its fourth continuing resolution in five months, agencies will have a hard time procuring cybersecurity technologies through the Department of Homeland Security’s Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation program and be forced to deal with shorter appropriations timetables.
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