jill aitoro, senior reporter at the "washington business journal." this has been "the communicators." >> middle and high school students it's time to get those cameras rolling for this year c-span student kim video competition. make a five to eight minute video on this year's theme, the constitution and you come and get it to c-span by the deadline of january 20 and he can win the grand prize

jill aitoro of the washington business journal is also with us today. from wilshusen -- mr. wilshusen, again, just to follow up on jill's question, is there a government-wide system or standard that is used for security information, or is it each agency does what each agency wants? >> guest: there are federal government information processing standards that are developed and promulgated by the national institute of standards and technology. in addition -- nist also issues special publications, and these are information security guidelines that are recommended or suggested for federal agencies to use. in addition, ohb, office of management and budget, issues policy memorandums as art of its oversight role of federal activities. so there are government-wide policies and procedures as well as standards. and at the same time, though, federal agencies need to assess the risk and alie those standards -- apply those standards as they pertain to their own environments. so they're going to need to be able to assess the risk and determine which appropriate controls are necessary to mit