President Obama called for a 35% increase in federal cybersecurity spending when he sent his final budget blueprint to Capitol Hill Monday.
"Cybersecurity is one of our most important national security challenges," Obama said in a statement accompanying the budget. "As our economy becomes increasingly digital, more sensitive information is vulnerable to malicious cyber activity."
The fiscal 2017 budget called for $19 billion in spending for cybersecurity – spending that the administration said would support a Cybersecurity National Action Plan.
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