On 9/18, Federal News Radio’s Jason Miller took a look at the Obama administration’s cybersecurity efforts and found that although “[t]he Obama administration can check off a long list of accomplishments around cybersecurity . . . most of these achievements have only superficially improved the security of agency networks.”
Miller started by noting that the administration’s Cyberspace Policy Review generated a lot of enthusiasm, making the administration appear like it had a good handle on the issues. President Obama even referred to himself as the tech president. Moreover, the Obama administration stood up CyberCommand, an important step, and achieved all 10 of its cybersecurity goals as laid out in the Cyberspace Policy Review.
However, Miller found that the administration fell short, and therefore deserved an ineffective rating in cybersecurity, for three reasons:
- “White House, DHS took two years to require continuous monitoring.”
- DHS issued requirements that “many agencies are just figuring out how to implement.”
- The failure to pass any sort of cybersecurity bill in both the House and Senate.
Check out the rest of Jason Miller’s article for Federal News Radio here.
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