Mark D. Rasch
Senior Principal
Mark Rasch is recognized as one of America’s top professionals in the areas of privacy, information security, forensic investigations, and high technology crime.
His deep substantive expertise was developed over a career of more than 25 years in corporate and government positions. He is particularly renowned for his knowledge of cybercrime laws and compliance requirements for subpoenas, court orders, and search warrants in conducting cyber investigations and incident response. Blending his technical and legal knowledge, he also assists government agencies and companies in establishing a workplace culture that complies with regulations and respects privacy while taking advantage of the possibilities presented by new technologies.
Most recently, Mr. Rasch was the Director of Privacy and Security Consulting at CSC, where he was responsible for incident response, forensic investigations and acting as “Chief Privacy Officer” for clients. Prior to that, he was president and co-founder of Secure IT Experts, an information security and privacy consulting company. Before that, he held managing director and senior vice president positions at various consulting firms.
Earlier in his career, Mr. Rasch was with the U.S. Department of Justice where he led the department’s efforts to investigate and prosecute cyber and high-technology crime and founded the computer crime unit within the Criminal Division’s Fraud Section, which eventually led to the creation of the Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section (CCIPS) of the Criminal Division.
Mr. Rasch is the author of numerous security- and privacy-related articles and is frequently quoted in both main stream and trade press on privacy and cybersecurity issues. He teaches Cybersecurity Law at the University of Maryland and is a frequent lecturer on the impact of new technologies on privacy and security.
He earned his juris doctor degree from the State University of New York at Buffalo School of Law and a bachelor’s degree in political science from the State University of New York at Albany.
