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>'What insights or expertise about cybersecurity could possibly justify such a sky-high fee, some wondered, even for a man as well-connected in the military-industrial complex as the former head of the nation's largest intelligence agency?' The same sort of insights and expertise that athletes put into stuff sold by Nike, Adidas or Gatorade. It's an endorsement deal.
$600k-$1m a month apparently gets you a cyber security company with no website.
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The government never paid him a million dollars.
Can't the government use everything they know he has done with them to ban him entirely from the sector? Some kind of conflict or interest or just hang him with something and put out a black mark.
You mean they could threaten this to get cooperation, or that they should do this?
Anyway. Yes, I think.
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Did it say he was going to use secret patents? Or just that he was going to use NSA patents? Because the NSA maintains a list of patented technologies that they offer to the public on various terms: http://www.nsa.gov/research/_files/tech_transfers/nsa_techno...
Even if he uses knowledge, methods, practices, routines, guidelines, etc from his time serving at the NSA -- I would expect a NDA to prevent him from using any of that knowledge -- my company made me sign one, and so do most.
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I think it's a little more than an endorsement deal. He knows deep inside information into what surveillance programs the NSA operates. I read it as follows: "we guarantee your company's IT infrastructure will no longer be seen as a low hanging fruit to the NSA"
He's not a clueless career bureaucrat. He's been in the cybersecurity business for a very long time (from his Wiki page): > Alexander worked on signals intelligence at a number of secret National Security Agency bases in the United States and Germany. He earned an MS in business administration in 1978 from Boston University, an MS in systems technology (electronic warfare) and an MS in physics in 1983 from the Naval…
Pretty amazing that the former director of the NSA can start a company in his former employer's space without being sued and yet as programmers we can't get a job anywhere without signing huge stacks of papers that make doing the same nearly impossible, or scary enough to where we don't even bother.