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March 2020 - Edition 42
People and Technology Form an
Effective One-Two Punch in the
Government’s Cybersecurity Battle
By Brandon Shopp, VP, Product That’s a sobering statistic, especially
Strategy and Security, SolarWinds given the amount of focus organiza-
tions have placed on strengthening
As you’re reading this, a data their cyberdefenses.
breach is most likely occur- The President’s Budget for FY
ring somewhere in the United 2019 allocated US$15B for cyberse-
curity funding, of which the Depart-
States.
ment of Defense by itself contrib-
On average, there were 20 data uted US$8.5B.
breaches reported per day in This funding is in direct response to
the first half of 2019.
a growing crisis made evident in 18 a