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National Security
Defending national security from both internal and external threats remains the Department of Justice's highest priority. The FY 2013 Budget request provides a total of $4 billion to maintain critical counterterrorism and counterintelligence programs and sustain recent increases for intelligence gathering and surveillance capabilities.
The administration supports critical national security programs within the department, including those led by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the National Security Division (NSD). In FY 2011, the FBI dedicated approximately 4,200 agents to investigate more than 33,000 national security cases. NSD has continued to carry out its primary functions to prevent acts of terrorism and espionage in the United States and to facilitate the collection of information regarding the activities of foreign agents and powers.
Investigating cybercrime and protecting our nation's critical network infrastructure is a top priority of the department. The President's FY 2013 Budget request maintains recent increases for the FBI's cyber terrorism investigations, the National Cyber Investigative Joint Task Force (NCIJTF) and the forensic examination of digital evidence. In addition, other department components have made critical investments to protect U.S. citizens and secure our homeland, and these components will continue their efforts in FY 2013. |
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a. Insider Threat
The 2010 WikiLeaks incident and other recent data leakage occurrences highlight the fact that insider threats pose one of the greatest risks to government information systems. Employees are trusted with sensitive and/or classified information and there is often little oversight or security governing that access. Implementing strong, flexible, and scalable measures to prevent insider attacks from succeeding is vital. The recent agency-wide Information Security Assessment revealed significant security weaknesses throughout the government and within the Department. Of primary concern are the control and monitoring of removable media, insider threat behavior monitoring and detection, and prevention of data leaks on all sensitive and classified information systems.
To counter insider threats, the increase will be used to design a defense plan and acquire and implement hardware infrastructure and software tools to monitor, detect, and respond to insider threats. |
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U.S. Department of Justice FY 2013 Budget Request NATIONAL SECURITY $4.0 billion DOJ National Security Programs FY 2013 Overview |
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