The Bush administration has proposed an increase of $14 million to cybersecurity projects as part of the FY’07 budget. This is an increase of 17% but many still consider the proposed financing for the National Cyber Security Division inadequate. Paul Kurtz, executive director of the Cyber Security Industry Alliance (CSIA) and one of the developers of the President’s National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace has said that while any increase in cybersecurity funding is welcome, "we are starting deep in the hole for R&D" and "well behind" in the cybersecurity work for which the NCSD is responsible.

In addition to inadequate budget, the Department of Homeland Security still has not filled the assistant secretary for cybersecurity and telecommunications position despite a July 2005 statement by Homeland Security Secretary Chertoff that filling the position is a key component if his key DHS reorganization plan.