Marcus Sachs

Marcus Sachs
Born	October 4, 1959 Lahore, Pakistan
Residence	Virginia, USA
Education	Master of Science
Alma mater	Georgia Institute of Technology The University of Texas at Austin
Occupation	Government Affairs

Marcus H. Sachs (born October 4, 1959) is the executive director of government affairs for national security and cyber policy at Verizon in Washington, D.C.

Biography

Birth and education

Sachs was born in Lahore, Pakistan in 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 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. Sachs holds a master's degree in Science and Technology Commercialization from the University of Texas and a master's degree in Computer Science from James Madison University.

Military service

Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant of Engineers in the United States Army in 1981, he served over 20 years as an officer in the Army Corps of Engineers. He graduated from the United States Army Command and General Staff College. 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. He retired from the US Army in 2002.

Duties

Sachs works 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 Washington. He is a member of the CSIS Commission on Cyber Security for the 44th Presidency. He specialized during the later half of his career in computer network operations, systems automation, and information technology.

Sachs was appointed by President George W. Bush in 2002 to serve in the White House Office of Cyberspace Securitym 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. He is credited for proposing the creation of the US-CERT in 2003.

In 2005, Sachs began directing the Washington operations of the Cyber Security Research and Development Center of SRI International. Supported by SRI International's Computer Science Laboratory under a contract with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the Center was the primary vehicle through which the Homeland Security Advanced Research Projects Agency (HSARPA) Cyber Security R&D programs were 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.