Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative

March 4th, 2010 admin

On Tuesday, the White House published an unclassified summary of its Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative (CNCI). Howard Schmidt made the announcement at the RSA Conference. These are the 12 initiatives in the plan: Initiative #1. Manage the Federal Enterprise Network as a single network enterprise with Trusted Internet. Initiative #2. Deploy an intrusion detection system of sensors across the Federal…


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