Thursday, June 18, 2009

Experts: Gov't Needs to Spend More on Cyber R&D - Business Center - PC World

The U.S. government has a 2009 R&D budget of about $143 billion, and only about $300 million will go to cybersecurity research, said Liesyl Franz, vice president of information security and global public policy at TechAmerica, a trade group. Funding for cybersecurity R&D and for training security professionals "requires immediate and sustained attention," she told the House of Representatives Research and Science Education Subcommittee Wednesday.
Experts: Gov't Needs to Spend More on Cyber R&D - Business Center - PC World

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