The annual US budget for IT allocated $ 65.5 billion.
The US budget for 2008 will be focused on information security. This was stated by the representative of President George W. Bush, writes InfoWorld .
Of the $ 65.5 billion, $ 31.4 billion will be received by the Ministry of Defense, $ 5.6 billion by the Ministry of Health, $ 4.1 billion by the Ministry of National Security.
During the press conference dedicated to this event, a hard disk was also mentioned containing personal data about 26.5 million military veterans and their family members and stolen from the home of one of the employees of the Ministry of Veterans Affairs. In addition, it is known that over the past five years, employees of various government agencies have lost several thousand laptops with secret information.