Agency Infosec Spend a Mystery to OMB

The White House Office of Management and Budget does not know how much its departments and agencies specifically spend on IT security, Federal CIO Vivek Kundra told a Senate panel Thursday.

Kundra said he was shocked to learn that the OMB never collected from agencies specific IT security expenditures, just aggregate data, when he took over earlier this year as the OMB’s administrator for e-government and IT, his statutory title.

via Agency Infosec Spend a Mystery to OMB.

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