GOVERNMENTAL INFORMATION PROTECTION POLICY is a high-level expression of strategic objectives for protecting governmental information, it is not the same as the more detailed information security of contingency policy for the government. The governmental information protection policy concerns itself with a wider range of issues and environments than do most contingency or security policies. It focuses on information rather than the technology for processing and maintaining information for the government, it seeks to protect information in all forms, electronic and paper, and all environments, both inside and outside the government. For that reason, responsibility for the information protection policy often passes from system technicians to public managers. This policy must be responsive to changing priorities and responsibilities for information protection, especially among users and public managers.