Ben Cardin actually said...

the United States is prepared to work jointly with the GCC states to deter and confront any external threat to any GCC state's territorial i...

Build on the successful models. We have a lot of successful models out there that have been done.

as Senator Cardin said, many of the private sector do not want to identify that they have been attacked, for fear of losing the good will.

I think that those are good suggestions. I agree that the technology at NIST needs to be better understood.