and other parts of the world as well >> host: also joining us here in "the communicators" is gautham nagesh who is the editor of cq role tall -- roll call brief. >> guest: how will the executive order improve cybersecurity and what would the standards due to operationally affect security? >> guest: would be look at what we are trying to do instead of taking the best practices from the leading companies that really do cybersecurity well ,-com,-com ma and spreading those out to the companies that don't do it quite as well yet, so really i think what you you'll see is the framework development taking a lot of the standards that that are at there that are already well-known and putting them together in a coherent framework that the company could adopt. i think what you will see is that this will enable companies to better clothes known loopholes, have a more rigorous process for ensuring that they know their cybersecurity is actually where they are and what they need to be doing and they think what you will see is a will help close a lot of the known vulnerabilities and the easy access is that

dpaw that many nagesh -- gautham nagesh is our guest reporter. >> why is legislation necessary? what are those legal obstacles or otherwisesome. >> guest: well, it's not so much the barriers on the government to private sector side. there those are really about policy and how we actually implement it, and i think that's one thing that you can see in the executive order is we can ramp that up on the executive branch side, um, and i don't think the barriers are as much statutory there as they are policy. in the other direction, um, i think there are potentially barriers to private companies sharing information with the government based on liability, concerns about the government's ability to actually protect information once a company gives it to the government. i think there are also concerns about company-to-company sharing and competitiveness issues and whether or not that's sort of anticompetitive to share that kind of cyber information. so i think from the administration's perspective one of the places we want to have discussions with congress on is are there ways to remove s

gautham nagesh is the editor of technology executive briefing. this is "the communicators" on c-span. >> coming up next, a discussion about nuclear weapons in the middle east and the decrease of u.s. influence in the region. then in about half an hour we're live with the closing session of the national governors' association's annual winter meeting as tv's dr. oz speaks to the group on government responsibility for the personal wellbeing of its citizens. and later the senate returns at 2 p.m. eastern following its weeklong presidents' day recess when new hampshire senator, kelly ayotte, delivers the annual reading of president george washington's 1796 of farewell address. >>> also today on the c pan networks, the bipartisan policy center's housing commission releases its recommendations for future federal policy. it's expected to address summits including -- subjects including housing finance and affordable rent. the report is being released by former senate majority leader george mitchell, former hud secretaries mel martinez and henry cisneros,