Cuts Hit Cyber Drills, Security Programs, Napolitano Says

The Department of Homeland Security will delay an intrusion detection program to protect U.S. government computers from cyber-attacks and has canceled cybersecurity exercises, Secretary Janet Napolitano said today.

Across-the-board budget cuts known as sequestration are also slowing the agency’s ability to fill vacancies in cyber incident response teams and disrupting the government’s broad efforts to boost cybersecurity, Napolitano said at a Senate hearing.