Alexander will try to help the financial sector weather cybersecurity threats in his new job at a security firm

May 12, 2014 14:18 GMT  ·  By

Keith Alexander, the former NSA chief that has recently retired, is heading for the private sector and is looking to launch a cybersecurity firm in Washington.

According to Politico, Alexander will be the leading man in a consulting firm that will help protect financial institutions from cyberattacks.

“After a 40-year career in the military and the government, I am beginning an effort to see what I could do to help address the cybersecurity threats facing the financial services industry, its customers, and their assets,” the former NSA chief told Politico.

He has also explained that the project is currently in its exploratory stages, but that he looks forward to what’s to come.

Alexander retired from the NSA at the end of March after nine years. The NSA and the White House denied that his departure had anything to do with the Snowden scandal and the leak of hundreds of thousands of top secret documents, even though Alexander admitted that he offered his resignation.

He is not the first and he certainly won’t be the last prominent government security and intelligence officer to choose to work in the private sector after leaving his position.

The former NSA chief left the agency at the end of March.