From: Federal Times
Lawmakers on Monday released a full-year spending bill that would provide $166 million to secure federal networks and fund the government’s continuous monitoring program.
The bill, which Congress is expected to vote on as soon as this week, would funnel that money through the Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Network Resilience division. The money would fund governmentwide and agency-specific efforts “to provide adequate, risk-based, and cost-effective cybersecurity to address escalating and rapidly evolving threats to information security.”
This would include funding for acquisitions and operations under the Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM) program, such as equipment, software and services offered by DHS, according to the legislation.
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