Information Security News: Clinton launches new plan to protect IT infrastructure

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Clinton launches new plan to protect IT infrastructure
By Erich Luening
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
January 7, 2000, 9:05 a.m. PT

President Clinton today launched a new $2 billion dollar battle plan for
combating cyberterrorism, including a new educational initiative to
recruit and educate information technology workers.

Spending for federal initiatives to protect the nation's infrastructure
from cyberattacks in the United States and abroad will increase 17
percent, from $1.7 billion in fiscal year 2000 to $2 billion in fiscal
year 2001, government officials said today.

"We have a new economy that is dependent on information technology,"
Commerce Department Secretary William Daley said in a press conference
this morning. "We have to protect this economy."

The new plan is the result of a study ordered by Clinton, which looked
into ways to protect America's computer systems from attacks by
cyberterrorists that could cripple key sectors of the economy.

The new National Plan for Information Systems Protection, version 1.0,
includes a $25 million funding proposal for the Federal Cyber Services
Training and Educational Initiative, which looks to meet the demand for IT
workers and information security specialists.


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