security has recently established the national cybersecurity and communications integration center or nccic, and this is a center that is to be used not only among dh, and and other -- dhs and other civilian as well as defense organizations within the federal government, but also the private sector in order to share information, to monitor ongoing security threats and incidents and to help increase the collaboration and coordination between these different parties. >> host: well, and take that global because, needless to say, ore countries -- other countries have their own policies in place and so forth. is there a partnership, collaboration, enough of a collaboration on the global level with our allies to address this problem? and what do you do about those countries that are actually the ones targeting us in the first place? >> guest: right. that's something we looked at, also, and issued a report last year on some of the global challenges and aspects of cybersecurity. and we had found that there are a number of different federal agencies involved in these efforts, and there are a number