Obama’s new cybersecurity agenda: What you need to know

In response to mounting cyber attacks on federal networks, President Barack Obama is seeking $ 19 billion for cybersecurity, more than a 35% increase over last year’s spending, and calling for a federal CISO to oversee all the upgrade of outdated and insecure cyber infrastructure.

The number of information security incidents grew more than 11-fold between 2006 and 2014 to 67,168, and attacks from other countries have been on the rise.

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