Marcus Sachs

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Marcus Sachs

Born	October 4, 1959 Lahore, Pakistan
Alma mater	Florida State University Georgia Institute of Technology
Occupation	Government Affairs

Marcus H. Sachs Marcus Sachs currently serves as the Executive Director of Government Affairs for National Security Policy at Verizon in Washington, D.C. where he works closely with external government and business stakeholders in task forces, working groups, committees, and trade associations as part of the National Security/Emergency Preparedness (NS/EP) community in the Nation's Capital.^[1]

He was born in Lahore, Pakistan on October 4, 1959 and moved to Tallahassee, Florida with his parents and younger brother in 1961. He grew up in Tallahassee and graduated from Godby High School in 1977. After briefly attending Florida State University, he transferred to the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta where he graduated in 1981 with a Bachelor of Civil Engineering degree. He subsequently graduated from the US Army's Command and General Staff College, and holds a Masters Degree in Science and Technology Commercialization from the University of Texas and a Masters Degree in Computer Science from James Madison University.

Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant of Engineers in the United States Army in 1981, he retired in 2002 after serving over 20 years as a Corps of Engineers officer. He specialized during the later half of his career in computer network operations, systems automation, and information technology. His final assignment in the Army was with the Defense Department's Joint Task Force for Computer Network Operations (currently named the Joint Task Force-Global Network Operations) where he was the Senior Operations Analyst and Technical Director.

Sachs was appointed by President George W. Bush in 2002 to serve in the White House Office of Cyberspace Security where he was a staff member of the National Security Council and the President's Critical Infrastructure Protection Board. While a member of the White House staff, he coordinated efforts to protect and secure the nation's telecommunication and Internet infrastructures, leveraging expertise from United States government agencies, the domestic private sector, and the international community. He also contributed to the National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace, and later served in the National Cyber Security Division of the US Department of Homeland Security where he proposed the creation of the US-CERT in 2003.^[2]

In 2005, Sachs began directing the Washington operations of the Cyber Security Research and Development Center of SRI International.^[3] . Supported by SRI International's Computer Science Laboratory under a contract with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the Center is the primary vehicle through which the Homeland Security Advanced Research Projects Agency (HSARPA) Cyber Security R&D programs are executed. Sachs is also a cyberspace security researcher, writer, and instructor for the SANS Institute and the Director of the SANS Internet Storm Center. He is a registered Professional Engineer in the Commonwealth of Virginia and holds an amateur radio advanced class license.