Government Case: Addressing Cyber Crime on the Internet

This chapter aims at helping you to figure out how to get help in covering critical unbudgeted tasks related to updates of software defenses for network security. When budgets were prepared, adequate funding for the volume of work currently being handled was not provided. The case looks to answers to questions related to where do you look for and get funding for such work. The chapter describes an overworked shop looking at ways to convince management to increase its staffing allocations. Yet in most large organizations, especially government, there are always opportunities available to help you survive and prosper. The key to success in using these revolves around knowing the systems and processes that the organization uses, when the window of opportunities typically comes available within them, and when to strike.