The House Appropriations Committee’s markup of the Homeland Security FY’15 spending bill made only small cuts to requested cyber funds, but the appropriators remained critical of a major threat detection and information sharing program. Now in its third iteration, the National Cybersecurity Protection System (NCPS)--more commonly referred to as EINSTEIN 3--has fallen behind its acquisition schedule and left questions of efficacy, the committee wrote in a report attached to the bill. EINSTEIN 3 is a Department of Homeland Security-hosted program…
