While addressing cybersecurity funding, the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee called for the national intelligence director and Homeland Security Department to submit by Jan. 1 2010 a comprehensive cybersecurity assessment detailing threats and vulnerabilities. "The country's electric power grid, communications systems, and financial infrastructure are all critical to our way of life yet [are] unacceptably vulnerable to cyber attack," the panel wrote.
The administration also should create "a survivable government communications network to sustain critical national security functions under and following [a] major cyber attack," the committee said. Additionally, the administration should give the intelligence director primary authority to manage all aspects of cybersecurity within the intelligence community. These issues were included in a report that accompanies the FY10 Senate Intelligence authorization bill. VIEW REPORT
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The administration also should create "a survivable government communications network to sustain critical national security functions under and following [a] major cyber attack," the committee said. Additionally, the administration should give the intelligence director primary authority to manage all aspects of cybersecurity within the intelligence community. These issues were included in a report that accompanies the FY10 Senate Intelligence authorization bill. VIEW REPORT
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