. >> joining our conversation this week is corey bennett, he is a cyberspace reporter for the hell. ill. corey: tell us about the benefits that this bill might bring in terms of cyber security. schwartz: i don't want to oversell the possibility of information sharing. it is important. the key point is that as we begin to upgrade those systems, the ones that have the ability to receive information and to automate this process of knowing when a threat comes in. that information can then be automated and you get to the edges of the network and we can build the protection faster. as you learn about the threat you can immediately take it to the edges of the network instead of taking weeks or months to patch the system. that is really the main goal here. to create the ability to automate and the incentive to share that information that we need. to find the threats faster. corey: you mention that you don't want to oversell it to a layperson might be watching it. ,hat is stop those breaches such as home depot? schwartz: you get to the point of having upgraded systems that can take in that in

. >> host: joining our conversation this week is corey bennett, cybersecurity reporter for "the hill" newspaper. >> thank you so much. obviously, related to a lot of the issues you mentioned, congress is trying to move a cybersecurity bill that would encourage information sharing between the private and public sectors. tell us what benefits you think that bill could bring. the white house has been onboard mostly for this bill. >> guest: yeah. i don't want to overstate the importance of information sharing. i think that it is one key point. obviously, i worked on it, and i do think that it is important. the key point here is as we begin to upgrade those systems as i was talking about earlier, those systems that have the ability to receive information and to automate this process of knowing when a threat comes in, you get that information can then be automated, get to the edges of the network, and we can build protection faster. so as we learn about a threat, we can get it immediately out to the edge of the network rather than it taking days, months or sometimes years to get where it ne