communications firms whose products and services support government and private sector networks nationwide. rate the intelligence community's performance when it comes to notifying clear defense contractors and other sensitive private sector actors about malicious cyber activities on their networks. >> you're asking many to rate a function for which i don't have responsibility or day to day execution. it is not informed by day to day experience so to say. this is an issue as nsa and cybercommand i try to work aggressively. as you have outlined, this is a tremendous concern for us as a department. clearly i think we are not where we need to be. the challenge i think is we have got multiple areas of knowledge and insight across the federal government, within the private sector and how do we bring this together and integrate a team with some real time flow back and forth? that is not where we are today. that's where we got to get to. >> in your estimation are we