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Security of the cyber infrastructure? >> we just need to have people who can read the output from the monitoring systems that come in, and if there's targeted attacks, which we get every single day, then you have to be able to respond to those. >> reporter: karen evans was in charge of information technology under president george w. bush. she says policy guidelines have not adequately changed since 1995 to affect the new cyber reality. >> how you connect with your blackberries, and how you can connect in with multiple devices. it's really about protecting the information. and so you have to h...

1995 to reflect the new cyberreality. >> how you can connect in with your blackberrys and multiple devices, it's really about protecting the information. you have to have defenses around your most sensitive information. >> reporter: the federal agency in charge of budget refuse to discuss agency specifics. still evans worries. >> that's what i'm concerned about right now, we're advertising that the agencies are going to shut down. >> reporter: tipton has been on capitol hill lobbying lawmakers on what he sees as an already existing shortage of cyber security personnel. >> we don't have enough ...

You have to be able to respond to those. >> reporter: karen evans was in charge of information technology under george w. bush, policy guidelines have not adequately changed since 1995 to reflect the new cyber reality. >> how you can connect in with your blackberries and multiple devices, it's really about protecting the information. you have to have defenses around your most sensitive information. >> reporter: the federal agency in charge of budget refuse to discuss agency specifics. >> that's what i'm concerned about right now, we're advertising that the agencies are going to shut down. >> r...

>> reporter: federal agency in charge of managing government, the office of management and bullet, says it is prepared for any contingency, they declined to be intervurd discuss any agency specifics. still, evans worries. >> i'm concerned about right now is we are advertising that the agencies are going to shut down. >> reporter: tipton has been on capitol hill lobbibying lawmakers what he sees an already existing shortage of cybersecurity personnel. >> zroent enough people to do the things that need to be done now and during a shut down, we start sending people home, we will have less, so the...