Speaker - Marcus Sachs

Marcus Sachs
Senior Vice President and Chief Security Officer, North American Electric Reliability Corp.

    

Marcus Sachs is the Senior Vice President and Chief Security Officer of the North American Electric Reliability Corporation in Washington, D.C. where he is responsible for the oversight of the Electricity Information Sharing and Analysis Center (E-ISAC), and for directing security risk assessment and mitigation initiatives to protect critical electricity infrastructure across North America.

He is a retired US Army officer, was a White House appointee in the George W. Bush administration, is the former director of the SANS Internet Storm Center, and previous to NERC was Verizon's Vice President for National Security Policy. He holds degrees in Civil Engineering, Science and Technology Commercialization, Computer Science, and a Ph.D. in Public Policy.