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Former Government Cybersecurity Professionals

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Cybersecurity

Experience From Inside the System

Cybersecurity now runs through a web of federal regimes — NIST frameworks, defense contracting rules, securities disclosure, sector regulators — and the people who wrote, enforced, and operated them are unusually well placed to help you meet them. The professionals below did exactly that.

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Cybersecurity

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Ranked by relevance to Cybersecurity from verified member profiles.

Elizabeth Roper

Verified15 years of government experience

Partner at Baker McKenzie

AI SummaryElizabeth Roper served over 15 years at the Manhattan District Attorney's Office, specializing in cybercrime. Her expertise in cybersecurity, investigations, and white-collar defense suits her current role as a partner at Baker McKenzie.

Current

PartnerBaker McKenzie

AttorneyInvestigations

Former Government

Assistant District AttorneyNew York County District Attorney's Office

Cybercrime

Practice Areas

Sectors

New York, New YorkView Profile →

Tyler G. Newby

Verified3 years of government experience

Partner, Litigation Group at Fenwick & West LLP

AI SummaryTyler G. Newby served as a Special Assistant United States Attorney and Trial Attorney in the U.S. Department of Justice, specializing in intellectual property and cybercrime.

Current

Partner, Litigation GroupFenwick & West LLP

Civil LitigationPrivacy Law

Former Government

Special Assistant United States AttorneyU.S. Attorney’s Office

Intellectual Property AttorneyCriminal Investigation

Practice Areas

Sectors

San Francisco, CaliforniaView Profile →

Matthew D. Krueger

Verified9 years of government experience

Govt. Enforcement Defense, Investigations, and Litigation

AI SummaryFormer U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, specializing in civil litigation, criminal law, and health law. Currently partners in government enforcement defense, investigations, and litigation, focusing on complex trials, cybersecurity, and data privacy.

Current

Partner, Government Enforcement Defense, Investigations, and LitigationFoley & Lardner LLP

Civil LitigationPrivacy Law

Former Government

Assistant U.S. Attorney, Eastern District of WisconsinU.S. Department of Justice (DOJ)

Civil LitigationHealth Law

Practice Areas

Sectors

Milwaukee, WisconsinView Profile →

Rolando R. Sanchez

Verified29 years of government experience

Attorney, Government Contracts, Cybersecurity, Data Privacy

AI SummaryServed in U.S. Marine Corps as trial and appellate attorney; Special Counsel at Duane Morris LLP specializing in government contracts, cybersecurity, and data privacy.

Current

Special CounselDuane Morris LLP · Full-time

Civil LitigationGovernment Contracts

Former Government

Judge Advocate - Trial and Appellate AttorneyUnited States Marine Corps

Appellate Litigation

Practice Areas

Sectors

Washington, District of ColumbiaView Profile →

Ann Dunkin

14 years of government experience

Corporate Advisor | Author | 4X CIO | Digital Leader

AI SummaryAnn Dunkin served as CIO for the U.S. Department of Energy, managing IT and cybersecurity for national labs and power grids. Her expertise in national security, energy, and technology innovation suits her for advising on digital transformation and strategic planning.

Current

Distinguished Professor of the Practice & Distinguished External FellowGeorgia Institute of Technology

National SecurityInfrastructure Management - Transport, Utilities

Former Government

Chief Information OfficerU.S. Department of Energy(DOE)

National SecurityPrivacy

Practice Areas

Sectors

Washington, District of ColumbiaView Profile →

Kirby Wedekind

12 years of military service

Risk | Intelligence | Security | Resilience

AI SummaryKirby Wedekind served in the US Marine Corps and DHS CISA, specializing in national security and infrastructure protection. Currently, he leads a risk advisory firm, leveraging his expertise in security and resilience.

Current

CEOHannibal Strategy and Security LLC

Former Government

Major / Combat Engineer Officer / Civil Affairs OfficerU.S. Marine Corps

National SecurityInternational Development

Practice Areas

Sectors

JacksonvilleView Profile →

Anne M. Voigts

Verified13 years of government experience

Head, National Appellate Practice, Pillsbury LLP

AI SummaryFormer clerk for Justice John Paul Stevens and Judge Stephen Reinhardt, and extern for Judge Sonia Sotomayor. Current appellate specialist and litigator, advising on critical motions and complex legal issues.

Current

PartnerPillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

AttorneyAttorney Advisor

Former Government

ExternCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit

ResearchLegal Assistant

Practice Areas

Sectors

Silicon Valley, CaliforniaView Profile →

Michael L. Yaeger

Verified8 years of government experience

White Collar, Cyber, Sentencing (Empirical Justice)

AI SummaryMichael Yaeger served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney, specializing in white collar crime and cybersecurity. His expertise in government investigations and compliance suits him for roles in cybersecurity and white collar crime defense.

Current

Founder & CEOEmpirical Justice

CybersecurityWhite Collar Crime

Former Government

Law Clerk U.S. Attorney’s Office

Law ClerkResearch

Practice Areas

Sectors

New YorkView Profile →

David Feder

Verified12 years of government experience

Litigation partner at Fenwick & West

AI SummaryDavid Feder served as Chief of the Cybercrime Unit at the U.S. Attorney’s Office, specializing in cybersecurity and complex litigation, now advising tech and life sciences companies.

Current

PartnerFenwick & West LLP

AttorneyCivil Litigation

Former Government

Law ClerkCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit

Law ClerkResearch

Practice Areas

Sectors

New YorkView Profile →

Mark L. Krotoski

Verified27 years of government experience

Litigation Partner at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

AI SummaryMark Krotoski served in the U.S. Department of Justice, specializing in cybersecurity, cybercrime, and antitrust. His roles as a federal prosecutor and coordinator for the CHIP Program suit him for leading cyber disputes and cartel enforcement teams.

Current

Litigation Partner, Leader of Cyber Disputes and Cartel Enforcement TeamsPillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

CybersecurityGovernment

Former Government

Law ClerkCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

Law ClerkResearch

Practice Areas

Sectors

Silicon Valley & Washington DC, District of ColumbiaView Profile →

Use Cases

When People Seek This Expertise

Incident & Ransomware Response

A live intrusion compresses legal, technical, and law-enforcement decisions into hours: engaging the FBI or Secret Service, CIRCIA reporting to CISA for critical infrastructure, state breach-notification clocks, and OFAC exposure if a ransom payment is even considered. People who ran responses from the government side have seen hundreds of these, not one.

CMMC & NIST SP 800-171 Readiness

Defense suppliers must evidence NIST SP 800-171 controls and pass CMMC assessment to keep DoD work. Former DoD officials and assessors know what evaluators actually probe and where implementations typically fail.

FedRAMP & FISMA Authorization

Selling cloud services to federal agencies means earning and keeping an authority to operate. Former agency CISOs and authorizing officials have sat on the granting side of that decision and know what continuous monitoring really demands.

SEC Cyber-Disclosure Decisions

The SEC's rules give public companies four business days to file a Form 8-K once an incident is judged material — and materiality is the hard call. Former SEC staff bring first-hand feel for how disclosure and enforcement teams read those filings.

HIPAA Security Rule Compliance

Healthcare organizations face OCR investigations and penalties that are usually built on risk-analysis failures. Former HHS professionals know what a defensible security program looks like on paper and in practice.

Board Oversight & Program Assessment

Boards increasingly want independent NIST CSF-based maturity reviews, tabletop exercises, and credible expert testimony. A former agency cyber leader carries weight with regulators, courts, and insurers alike.

Backgrounds

Where This Expertise Comes From

CISA

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is the national coordinator for civilian cyber defense — vulnerability management, incident response, and CIRCIA incident reporting. Former CISA advisors and responders map directly to breach response and framework-based program reviews.

FBI Cyber Division

Investigates criminal and nation-state intrusions and leads ransomware task forces. Former special agents bring evidence handling, attacker tradecraft, and the judgment for when and how to involve law enforcement.

NSA & U.S. Cyber Command

The signals-intelligence agency and the military's cyber operations command. Former operators and analysts underpin threat-informed defense and nation-state risk assessment.

U.S. Secret Service

Runs cyber fraud task forces focused on financial cybercrime and business email compromise. Former agents map to payment-fraud incidents and financial-sector response.

DoD Cyber Crime Center (DC3)

Provides digital forensics and threat sharing for the defense industrial base, within the wider DoD ecosystem that owns CMMC. Former staff map to 800-171/CMMC readiness and forensic investigation.

SEC

The Securities and Exchange Commission writes and enforces the public-company cyber-disclosure rules. Former enforcement and Corporation Finance staff map to materiality calls and Form 8-K decisions.

FTC & State Attorneys General

Enforce data-security obligations through the FTC Act and state breach-notification laws. Former staff map to post-breach regulatory exposure, investigations, and settlements.

HHS Office for Civil Rights

Enforces the HIPAA Security Rule across healthcare. Former OCR professionals map to healthcare security compliance and breach investigations.

Why It Matters

The Inside Vantage Point

Reading a regulation tells you what it says; having enforced or operated it tells you how it's applied — what an assessor probes, what an investigator asks first, what a regulator treats as good faith. Browse the ranked professionals above and reach out directly to the background that fits your situation.

FAQs

Working With These Professionals

Why engage a former official rather than a security consultancy?

Consultancies benchmark against frameworks; people who ran response and enforcement inside CISA, the FBI, or a regulator know how those bodies actually judge an incident, an assessment, or a disclosure. Most engagements complement your existing security and legal teams rather than replace them.

Can I bring someone in before an incident?

Yes — and it's the cheaper end of the work: program assessments, tabletop exercises, and readiness reviews before anything goes wrong are most of what these professionals are engaged for.

Why does agency background matter when choosing someone?

An intrusion, a CMMC assessment, and a disclosure decision are judged by different bodies with different instincts. Match the person's agency background to the regulator, assessor, or investigator you're actually facing.

Can these professionals serve as expert witnesses?

Many do — on breach-response adequacy, security standards of care, and regulatory practice, with credibility earned inside the agencies whose expectations are in question.

Is this only for large organizations?

No — small defense suppliers facing certification, startups selling into government, and counsel needing an independent view all engage through the directory. Scope and terms are agreed directly with the person you contact.

How do I engage someone listed here?

Profiles link directly to each member's contact details — no intermediary, no fee. Reach out to the person whose background matches your situation.

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