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The Federal Government and Cybersecurity

The Federal Government and Cybersecurity
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Cybersecurity has become a very important issue for the federal government to address. Threats from cyberspace affect a broad range of government organizations, from the Department of Defense, to the police force, to the Department of Energy, and risk the extraction of important classified information by hackers or hostile parties. This infographic from Fed Tech Magazine takes a look at the development of the cyberthreat. Click to enlarge.

cybersecurity, federal government, defense

Terri Harel

Former IVN editor. UC Berkeley graduate in Political Economy. Worked on data analysis and visualization software in Start Up Chile accelerator. Photographer, music blogger, and activist based in Santiago, Chile.

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