From: FedScoop
Boring work in the back offices is what’s needed — not another shiny new piece of security technology.
By Shaun Waterman
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“Structurally, from a budgeting perspective, we’re not set up for for success [in federal cyber security],” said Thomas McDermott, the acting deputy assistant secretary for cybersecurity policy at the Department of Homeland Security.
“The way the federal budgeting process works, with one-year money, it makes it much harder to spend [on] long-term upgrading infrastructure, as opposed to continuing to patch old and frankly often indefensible IT systems,” he said.
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