Homeland Security Presidential Directive 23

In January 2008, the President issued '''Homeland Security Presidential Directive''' &mdash; also referred to as National Security Presidential Directive 54 and the President’s “Cyber Initiative” &mdash; to improve the federal government’s cybersecurity efforts, including protecting against intrusion attempts and better anticipating future threats.

While the directive is a classified document, US-CERT officials stated that it includes steps to enhance cyber analysis related efforts, such as requirements that federal agencies implement a centralized monitoring tool and that the federal government reduce the number of connections to the Internet, referred to as Trusted Internet Connections.