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Verizon Taps Marcus Sachs as New Head of Government Affairs for Nation al Security Policy
From: "Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 02:19:21 GMT
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Via UPI. [snip] One of the nation's leading cybersecurity experts has been named Verizon Inc.'s executive director of government affairs for national security policy. Marcus Sachs, formerly Washington head of SRI International's Computer Science Laboratory, was named Tuesday in a statement from Verizon. In the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, Sachs was appointed by President Bush as director of communication infrastructure protection on the National Security Council staff. He later became the Department of Homeland Security's first cyber program director, in which post he developed the initial concept for the department's U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team, or US-CERT. Sachs will represent Verizon on cybersecurity policy matters in government task forces, industry working groups, formal committees and industry trade associations, at the national level in Washington, said the statement. [snip] More: http://www.upi.com/International_Security/Emerging_Threats/Briefing/2008/01 /30/verizon_taps_new_head_of_national_security/1122/ Congratulations, Marc! - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.3 (Build 3017) wj8DBQFHoTAkq1pz9mNUZTMRAihyAKDsn86iforhTzBEDANkyOWUr8ZDqACfWabs the+jiFSK8nLFvqwCCeSefw= =sJ+x -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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