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Risk. here s cnn s deb ferric. reporter: the last time washington, d.c. shut down over stalled budget talks in 1995, hipton was in charge of protecting critical infrastructure. power grids, power supplies, monitoring natural disasters. back then, he says, cyber security was so new, it was almost a nonissue during the government shutdown of the. the government shutdown in 1995, for it to happen today, it would be a completely different ball game. no comparison. the number of people that will be determined essential this time, just for the security piece alone, will be several orders of magnitude larger. reporter: federal agencies are required to have back-up plans listing essential employees. people who stay mind and safeguard their agency when everyone else goes home. where do you see the biggest threat being when it comes to security of the cyber infrastructure? we just need to have people who can read the output from the monitoring systems that come in, ....

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