Mark D. Rasch (born August 2, 1958) is an American attorney and author, working in the areas of corporate and government cybersecurity, privacy and incident response. He is the former Chief Security Evangelist for

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after having been Vice President, Deputy General Counsel, and Chief Privacy and Data Security Officer for SAIC. From 1983 to 1992, Rasch worked at the U.S.

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within the Criminal Division's Fraud Section. Rasch earned a J.D. in 1983 from

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and is a 1976 graduate of the

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. He prosecuted

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in the case of '' United States v. Morris (1991)''. He was an ''

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'' related to data encryption in

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, and prosecuted presidential candidate

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, and organized crime figures in New York associated with the

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He also helped uncover the individual responsible for the so-called "

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" in Boston. Rasch has been a regular contributor to Security Current and

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and

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on issues related to law and technology and is a regular contributor to

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. He was also a longtime columnist for ''Storefront Backtalk'', a now-defunct publication that tracked global retail technology. He has appeared on or been quoted by MSNBC, Fox News, The New York Times, Forbes, PBS, The Washington Post, NPR and other national and international media.

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