Sep 14, 2021


The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) could receive $856 million from the $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill. Text released from the House Homeland Security Committee’s mark-up of the legislative language which is due for review today, shows that at one end of the scale, $25 million would go to help develop a national multi-factor authentication (MFA) campaign, reports Meritalk.

At the other end, $400 million would be earmarked for the CISA to implement President Biden’s cyber executive order, $100 million for a cybersecurity education and training program and $210 million for general operations, around ten percent of CISA’s annual operating budget and the additional operations funding would last until the end of 2031.

Another $50 million would go to establishing a Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center and $20 million to expand projects with international partners to protect critical infrastructure, according to Meritalk.

President Biden recently urged American companies to adopt MFA to protect themselves from Russian cyberattacks. A survey for Yubico found almost three quarters of responding businesses plan to increase spending on MFA, that nearly half already use biometrics for privileged administrators and staff and that user experience was the main obstacle to MFA adoption.


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