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U.S. Government Seeks to Invest $6B in 'Security by Obscurity'

Rich Steinnon writes on the ZDNet "Threat Chaos" Blog:

According to the Wall Street Journal this morning the Bush administration is pushing to spend $6 billion on cyber security in one year! They claim that US telecom systems are not adequately protected and that they need to spend this money to protect it. Just one problem, the government is not revealing to Congress just how these funds will be spent.

First of all let’s put some perspective around the size of this budget. $6 billion is larger than the entire industry for firewalls. That’s right, the total sales of firewalls from Check Point, Cisco, Juniper, Watchguard, Sonicwall, and twenty other vendors, world wide, is less than $6 Billion. The entire security industry for products is less than $24 Billion.

posted by Fergie @ 1/28/2008 11:01:00 AM