... so well represented here.
We’ve secured vital new funding for Cybersecurity.
In our first year in office we allocated an addition $1.2 billion to digital defense
and next year our administration has requested a record $15 billion
to secure America’s Cyber frontiers.
And we’ll continue to work with Congress.
To provide the resources we need to defend our nation
from the threats we face in the digital domain.
But this critical issue requires
more than new funding.
America also needs a central hub for Cybersecurity
and today we call on the United States Senate
to follow the lead of the House of Representatives,
and before the end of this year,
enact legislation to create a new agency under the authority of DHS.
The time has come for the Cybersecurity
and Infrastructure Security Agency to commence.
Thank you
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This agency will bring together the resources of our national government
to focus on Cybersecurity
and it's an idea whose time has come.
In addition to funding and reforms,
our administration is hardening federal networks as never before.
We’re taking renewed action to identify and eliminate
weaknesses that our adversaries could exploit.
For example,
the Federal government has long allowed Kaspersky Lab,
a Russian antivirus software,
to be installed on federal devices,
even though it has a direct relationship with the Russian Government
and intelligence services.
This threat existed for many years.
But our administration ended the threat last year
when we banned Kaspersky Lab software from the entire federal government.
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We’ve also dramatically increased information sharing with innovators,
developers, and network defenders.
Americas intelligence and law enforcement agencies
have an unparalleled ability to discover
weaknesses in digital products and software