Marcus H. Sachs, is Vice President of Government Affairs, National Security Policy, Verizon Communications, where he assists federal, state, and local officials with national security emergency preparedness and cyber policy coordination in the communications sector. At Verizon, he assists business units with integrating national security emergency preparedness policy into network operations, support for critical infrastructure, and protection of Verizon’s global corporate assets. External to Verizon Sachs serves as Vice Chair of the Communications Sector Coordinating Council and supports several other public/private advisory working groups and task forces. In 2007, he was named a member of the CSIS Commission on Cyber Security for the 44th Presidency, and from 2003 to 2010, he was Director of the SANS Internet Storm Center. Earlier, he had a 20-year military career as an officer in the US States Army, followed by two years of federal civilian service at the White House and the US Department of Homeland Security. In 1998, he was selected by the Secretary of Defense to be an initial member of the Joint Task Force for Computer Network Defense, a military unit organized to conduct cyberspace operations in reaction to growing foreign threats targeting sensitive military networks. After retiring from the military, he was appointed by the President to serve concurrently on the staff of the National Security Council as the Director for Communication Infrastructure Protection in the White House Office of Cyberspace Security and on the staff of the President’s Critical Infrastructure Protection Board. Sachs joined the National Cyber Security Division of the US Department of Homeland Security in June 2003, where he implemented the National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace, including the launch of US-CERT. Sachs holds a Master’s of Science in Computer Science with a concentration in Information Security from James Madison University, a Master’s of Science in Science and Technology Commercialization from the University of Texas at Austin, and a Bachelor of Civil Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology. He is also a graduate of the Army’s Command and General Staff College, Army Engineer School, Army Computer Science School, and Army’s Airborne and Air Assault schools. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Public Policy at George Mason University and is a senior faculty member of SANS Technology Institute.

Distinguished Panel

Edward G. Amoroso serves as Senior Vice President and Chief Security Officer for AT&T Services. His responsibilities include real-time security protection over AT&T’s network and computing infrastructure, including mobility services, security policy, planning, and architecture for AT&T’s enterprise, security support for AT&T’s IPTV initiatives, and support for AT&T’s managed and network-based security services.



William F. Pelgrin, is President and Chief Executive Officer of the Center for Internet Security, a not-for-profit organization with the aim of enhancing cyber security readiness and response of public and private sectors through collaboration. Pelgrin is also Founder and Chair of the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center and chairs the Public/Private Sector Cyber Security Workgroup...



Paul Mahon, Assistant Special Agent In Charge of the United States Secret Service (USSS) New York Field Office, supervises eight criminal investigative squads which include the multi-agency Electronics Crimes Task Force Network Intrusion Squad and a multi-agency computer Forensics Laboratory. Mahon joined the USSS in 1990 after working for five years at the National Security Agency as an Electronics Engineer.