From: FierceGovernmentIT
By David Perera and Molly Bernhart Walker
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OMB requires agencies to separate out for purposes of further OMB review the IT portions of their budget requests, and typically the release of a White House budget proposal is occasion for the federal CIO to elaborate on OMB oversight and plans – something that officials say for this year won’t be ready in greater detail until later this month.
The $79.1 billion includes about $13 billion for cybersecurity, both salaries and systems, VanRoekel said during the press call.
A federal cybersecurity priority this year and next will be deploying continuous monitoring sensors across all federal networks, he added. He also cited government work with the private sector to secure the systems of industries considered to be critical infrastructure as a priority. So is addressing security problems advanced by federal adoption of new technologies, he added.
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