From: FederalNewsRadio.com 1500 AM
By Jason Miller | @jmillerWFED
It’s been 11 months since federal employees and contractors first learned about the massive data breach impacting the Office of Personnel Management. Since then the federal community has seen a 30-day cyber sprint, which turned into a long term Cybersecurity National Action Plan. And now, the Obama administration is attacking the government’s cybersecurity problem by modernizing legacy systems that put agencies at more risk and cost more to maintain.
In April, the White House sent its legislative proposal to Capitol Hill to create a 3-point-1 billion dollar IT modernization fund where the leading rationale is cybersecurity. Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) introduced his bill based on that proposal and so begins the dance to see if Congress will support the Obama administration’s plan to modernize federal IT.
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