Sources: Critical cyber efforts will soon feel the pinch from shutdown

An optimistic view that a short government funding gap -- during an extended holiday period -- would have little impact is giving way to sobering calculations that the ongoing partial federal shutdown will very shortly begin to threaten both cybersecurity and momentum in various cyber collaborations with industry.

“With each passing day, the impact on our nation's security grows. Meanwhile, our adversaries are not missing a beat and the daily attacks on our systems continue,” said Suzanne Spaulding, the former...