If passed, the Office of Information Security’s budget would total $180 million next year, VA CIO Steph Warren said, according to the report.
The VA is requesting a total of $4.13 billion, 6 percent of which would go toward cybersecurity spending, according to the report.
“Cybersecurity is a team sport,” Mr. Warren said. “We’ve got dollars identified in the budget that are new tools or new processes. But [for] every single VA employee — and, more importantly, the ones out at the medical centers — a large part of their job is doing cyber support and doing activity and actions that are necessary to secure the enterprise.”
According to Nextgov, there were more than 14 million attempts to enter VA networks last month, and the VA blocked or contained more than 672 million malware attempts.
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