Bank Info Security Reports:
President Obama is creating the position of federal chief information security officer as part of a multifaceted initiative aimed at strengthening the nation’s IT security. Related steps include the formation of a public-private Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity, as well as a proposal to boost government cybersecurity spending next fiscal year by 35 percent to $19 billion. “Cyberthreats are a national-security risk few of my predecessors faced, but they will be ones my successors, regardless of party, must address,” Obama wrote in a Feb. 9 Wall Street Journal op-ed….SOURCE