joining me today, former nsa director general keith alexander.eneral, so great to have you on the show. thank you for joining us. we have to start with the standoff between apple and the fbi. google, facebook -- tech company cited with apple. reopened a divide between washington and silicon valley. how sustainable is it for tech companies to be at odds with their government? gen. alexander: everyone has a right to one opinion. what we have to do is we have to learn how to get our country back together. best of what we represent and put that on the table. when i look at the great capabilities coming out of the tech community, these are phenomenal, tremendous opportunities. look at your caves. the opportunities you have in -- foron, for medication medicine, for communication. there are tremendous vulnerabilities with it. forre outpacing the ability the policy community to keep up. i would not say slow down, but i would say because we have on so far so fast, how do we help the policy community keep up. this encryption issue is such a problem. commun

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keith alexander, former head of the nsa is now running his own cyber security startup and he believeshere is another big attack coming. take a listen to what he told me. keith: in cyber, when you look at what is happened from 2014 to now, you see an increase in attacks from other countries. attacks going from financial institutions to energy institutions. in the asian countries, you are or -- you saw the ukrainian power grid get taken down in december and generate. and january. emily: the former head of the alexander will be my guest on "studio 1.0" this weekend. lisa: that special "bloomberg west" is tonight at 6:00 p.m. eastern here on bloomberg tv. with keith alexander at noon on sunday. david: time for the bloomberg business flash. westar energy drawing takeover --erest from ammon court amencor -- lisa: the event driven hedge fund tumbled 15% in the first quarter. almost half of the losses occurred in march. olson manages the advantage and advantage plus hedge fund. bonuses worth a combined $43.8 million last year as the ceoshares fell -- bonus for the year was $8.5 million. that

tom ridge is in it, keith al -- alexander is in it. >> guest: yep, yep. go ahead. say the nasty thing that's roiling around in your brain. >> host: that's all i got. >> guest: you're going to leave it to me. >> host: yes, sir. >> guest: it's clearly one of the questions we have to consider. to what degree is all this conversation about cybersecurity and the dangers of cyber attack, to what degree is that a function of people who have been in the business of dealing with cyber warfare? getting rich now that they have left government by coming up with defensive mechanisms that your silence implies may not even be needed. all i can say is i had to look at the issue or very carefully. i've talked to a lot of experts who have absolutely no financial interest in protecting against a cyber attack. and i am convinced that the danger is real. are there people who are going to get rich? absolutely. just as there have always been people many this country who have gotten rich from the defense industry. the difference between getting rich by, you know, creating munitions or hel

emily: this week i sit down with general keith alexander the four-star general who was head of the nsathe edward snowden revelations. these days he is still tackling cybercrime on the corporate side. i started by asking him about life after the nsa. general: i wasn't sure what is going to do. i didn't know if i want to work for somebody i was looking forward to working with somebody. i talked to some of the financial institutions and other companies. they said with what you know about cyber security when you start a cyber security company to solve some of these problems. the more i got into it i talked to some of the guys were out there. i said would you be in houston doing this. i said we can start a company. it's going to make everybody safer. when you look at cyber security for a company. such as a banker and energy company or health care. one of the problems you see? how we address them? they couldn't stop the sony on the other hacks that went on. flowing in that work speed. being able to respond to get people much faster capabilities. analysis ofdoing you see a increase in attacks

, general keith alexander, thank you for joining us.some degree is important to be in place and yet, there has been this new see manned with apple and the fbi and command. >> it's what our nation needs. i look at what apple is going to really good people, they see the security of the private information as key and i see over here jim comey and the fbi trying to defend the country. how do you get the information you need to be secure. where i am, we need both. you know, we need to act as a team. i think something happened to the team, we've got to rebuild it and that's where our government, our industry needs to come together and act as a team for the good of the nation because it's not either one, it's both. we need security and we need our civil liberties and privacy. that's going to be hard, it's harder to do both than one or the other, but the american people need both because if we just do security, then we don't have civil liberties and privacy. if we just do civil liberties and privacy, then our security is-- >> one of the solutio

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tom ridge is in it, keith alexander is now in it. >> guest: say the nasty thing that is roiling around that's what i've got before you're going to leave it to me aren't you? it is clearly one of the questions we have to consider. to what degree is all this conversation about cyber security and the dangers of cyber attack, to what degree is that the function of people who have been in the business of dealing with cyber warfare? getting rich now that they have left government by coming up with defensive mechanisms that your silence implies would not even be needed. all i can say is i had to look at the issue very carefully and i talked to a lot of experts who have absolutely no financial interest in protecting against a cyber attack and i'm convinced that the danger is real. are there people who are going to get rich absolutely. just as there have always been people in this country who have gotten rich on the defense industry . the difference between getting rich by creating munitions or helicopters or bombers or warships and people who created it by trying to find solutions for cyber wa

president of this is develop a strategy, as i am net, a firm he cofounded with former nsa director keith alexander. to my immediate left is michael mukasey to serve as a federal judge in the southern district of new york from 1987-2006 after their brief stint in private practice he returned to serve his country as the attorney general under president bush. he's now of counsel of a new york law firm. the title of this panel is counterterrorism collection authorities and the rule of law, which when he began to think about it starts with something of a conundrum or a conflict. since intelligence and espionage is at its core fundamentally a lawless activity when we send signals intelligence people to penetrate china or human intelligence people to penetrate iran, they are by definition almost violating laws of those countries. likewise, when the russians since when is almost certainly a violation of american domestic law. yet the hallmark of american democracy, one of the hallmarks, is our commitment to the rule of law. the idea that we are a government of laws, not of men, and that our officials act

director of the national counterterrorism sector, and he is the president strategylopment of with keith alexander. to my immediate left is michael y who served as a federal judge in the southern district of new york in 2006. after a very brief stint in private practice, he returned under president bush. the title of this panel is counterterrorism collection authorities and the rule of law. which, when you begin to think about it, is something of a conundrum for a conflict, since intelligence and espionage is at its core fundamentally a lawless activity. when we send people to iran, theychina or are by definition, almost, violating the laws in those countries. the russians send somebody here, it is a violation of american domestic law. yet the hallmark of american democracy, or one of the hallmarks of american democracy, is our commitment to the rule of law. the idea that we are a rule of law and not of men and that our officials act within the bounds of law. the american experience with that tension, if you will, has been of varying intensity. it goes back as far and my favorite story is of henry

he's president of development strategy, he cofounded with former nsa director keith alexander. to my immediate left is a federal judge from 1987 to 2006 after a brief stint in private practice he returned as the attorney general under president bush. he's of a new york law firm. the title is counter terrorism collection authorities and the rule of law which when you think about it starts with something of a conen drum or conflict since intelligence and es pea naj is at the core fundamentally a lawless activity when we send signals intelligence people to penetrate china or human intelligence people to penetrate iran, they are by definition almost violating the laws of those countries. likewise when the russians send somebody here it is certainly a violation of american domestic law. yet the hallmark of american democracy, one of the hallmarks of american democracy is our commitment to the rule of law. the idea that we are a government of laws, not of men. and that are -- has been of varying intensity. it goes back as far. my first story is henry clay who famously said as congres

an exclusive interview retro by spy with the former head of the nsa and cyber command general keith alexanderly live at 10:00 a.m. eastern. maria: would look forward appeared transfixed with the latest there. you're in a there. china must does pennsylvania governor and former homeland security secretary tom ridge. thanks for joining us. do you think the u.s. is prepared to engage in cyberwarfare with the rest of the world? how would you characterize things right now? >> first of all come it's appropriate to do with this issue at west point. cyberwarfare is that it mentioned the war, air, land, see another real. aren't engaged in a cyberwar and the answer is we are not as prepared as we need to be. the anecdote to greater preparation is much greater collaboration and cooperation between the private sector and federal government. true to it feels like things are worse than ever as it relates to cyber. >> there's a lot of good people in the federal government that worked very hard to protect the digital network, protect security, but the breadth and depth of the capability and the federal govern