Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano recently testified at a Senate appropriations subcommittee hearing on the president's FY 2013 DHS budget request, where she emphasized that funds were needed to strengthen the nation's cybersecurity efforts.
"Today's threats are not limited to any one individual, group or ideology and are not defined nor contained by international borders," Napolitano said. "Terrorist tactics can be as simple as a homemade bomb and as sophisticated as a biological threat or a coordinated cyber attack."
Napolitano said the funds would support efforts to secure civilian government computer systems and the nation's critical infrastructure and information systems. Indeed, the FY 2013 budget makes a significant investment of $345 million to expedite the deployment ofEINSTEIN 3, a system that identifies and characterizes malicious network traffic to enhance cybersecurity analysis, situational awareness and security response. She testified that the system prevents and/or detects intrusions on government computer systems and increases federal network security of large and small agencies.
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