Defense Information Systems Agency budgets $959 million for IT security
As DoD prepares to sign a cybersecurity pact with NATO, DISA tries to get its own house in order; $819 million for operations and maintenance and $140 million for procurements; plans to improve defense of SIPRNET, develop a risk management system
With the Department of Defense set to sign a cybersecurity cooperation agreement with NATO (see report in today’s issue), the Defense Information Systems Agency is preparing to spend $959 million on network and information systems security over the next three years as part of the agency’s Information Systems Security Program (ISSP). Of that total, $247 milliion will be spent in 2007, $251 million requested in 2008, and $319 million in 2009. All told, the DISA budget as proposed by President Bush includes $819 million for operations and maintenance and $140 million for procurements. Among the major programs in the offering include a renewed defense of the Secret Internet Protocol Router Network (SIPRNET), the deployment of a DOD-wide risk management system to verify that any connections made to the SIPRNET come from valid DOD users, and the expanded use of isolated subnets called Demilitarized Zones (DMZs).
-read more in Bob Brewin’s FCW report
