An Interview with General Keith Alexander on cybersecurity, Snowden, and IronNet

Cybersecurity has regularly dominated the news, most recently with the ongoing showdown between Apple and the FBI.

Both corporate and government priorities have evolved accordingly. The FBI says more than7,000 US companies have been victimized by smartphone-based attacks that have penetrated the company network, and the Pentagon’s cyber warfare budget has increased 31% to $5.1 billion in 2015 from 2013. These statistics show that, in a world of smartphones and connected devices, companies and government agencies can’t afford to disconnect; they need to defend themselves.

In this episode of Ventured, my partner Brook Byers and General Keith Alexander engage in a wide-ranging discussion on these topics, covering terrorism, cyber threats, and network security. After serving as director of the National Security Agency (NSA) for many years, General Alexander recently shifted his efforts to the private sector by starting IronNet, which provides large corporations and government agencies with the tools to prevent cyber-attacks on their critical infrastructure. For the full article click here 

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