The Federal Government's Track Record on Cybersecurity and Critical Infrastructure

Citation
U.S. Senate, Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (Minority Staff), The Federal Government's Track Record on Cybersecurity and Critical Infrastructure (Feb. 4, 2013) (full-text).

Overview
Since 2006, the federal government has spent at least $65 billion on securing its computers and networks, according to an estimate by the Congressional Research Service. NIST, the government's official body for setting cybersecurity standards, has produced thousands of pages of precise guidance on every significant aspect of IT security. And yet agencies &mdash; even agencies with responsibilities for critical infrastructure, or vast repositories of sensitive data &mdash; continue to leave themselves vulnerable, often by failing to take the most basic steps towards securing their systems and information.