DHS Sharply Reduces Ambitions For Cybersecurity Surge

摘要

When pressure mounted to secure the southern border in 2005, the Bush administration announced that it would double the number of Border Patrol agents posted there. Similarly, as voices in Congress raised up two years ago to demand that the nation do more to secure government computer networks, the Obama administration announced that the Department of Homeland Security would hire 1,000 computer security experts. That surge has apparently fizzled. Philip R. Reitinger, deputy undersecretary for the National Protection and Programs Directorate at DHS, told the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee that the new goal is to hire 400 by October 2012. Their numbers currently stand at 260.