Marcus Sachs

Marcus H. Sachs (born October 4, 1959) is the vice president for national security policy at Verizon in Washington, D.C.

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 military career in computer network operations, systems automation, and information technology.

After leaving government service and prior to joining Verizon, Sachs directed 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 was the Director of the SANS Internet Storm Center from 2003 to 2010. He is a registered Professional Engineer in the Commonwealth of Virginia and holds an amateur radio advanced class license.