From: GovInfoSecurity.com
‘Whole-of-Government’ Approach to Incident Response Proposed
By Eric Chabrow
President Obama’s fiscal year 2015 budget outlines a set of priorities – a wish list – of programs the administration hopes to pursue, including a federal cyber campus where civilian agencies can collaborate on cyber-incident response.
Collaboration is among the major cybersecurity themes in Obama’s proposed budget for fiscal year 2015, which begins Oct. 1.
“Cyberthreats are constantly evolving and require coordinated, comprehensive and resilient plan for protection and response,” according to the 212-page budget document issued March 4. “The budget identifies and promotes cross-agency cybersecurity indicatives and priorities, including improving cybersecurity information sharing while protecting privacy, civil liberties and enhancing state and local capacity to respond to cyber-incidents.”
The budget proposes $35 million for the design of a federal cyber campus to co-locate key civilian agencies in the Washington area to promote a “whole-of-government” approach to cybersecurity incident response.
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