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Eric Wenger

Senior Director, Technology Policy

Global Government Affairs

Eric Wenger is Senior Director for technology policy and leads Cisco's government affairs work globally on a range of policy issues, including: cybersecurity, 5G, IOT, lawful intercept, and data protection. Eric came to Cisco from Microsoft, where he was Policy Counsel. He was a Trial Attorney in the Department of Justice's Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section and a Special Assistant United States Attorney in DC’s Computer Hacking & Intellectual Property Unit. He served as an Attorney in the Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Consumer Protection and an Attorney Advisor to then Commissioner Leary. He was also Assistant Attorney General in New York, where he started the first statewide law enforcement unit in the U.S. focused on e-commerce. Eric earned his undergraduate degree at Cornell University and graduated with Honors from George Washington University Law School.

Articles

August 4, 2023

HIGH TECH POLICY

CISA Cybersecurity Strategic Plan: An Important Step To Secure Critical Infrastructure

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As a founding member of the Network Resilience Coalition, Cisco appreciates CISA’s shared commitment to focusing attention and investment on efforts to secure and maintain existing critical networked technologies.

May 20, 2022

HIGH TECH POLICY

An Action Plan to Boost Open Source Security

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Last week, Cisco’s Head of Open Source, Stephen Augustus, and I joined nearly 100 executives from 37 companies and leaders from the White House and across the U.S. federal government in Washington DC at the Open Source Software Security Summit II to finalize an action plan to boost the security of open source software (“OSS”). […]

March 2, 2022

HIGH TECH POLICY

Cisco Applauds Senate Passage of the Strengthening American Cybersecurity Act of 2022

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Cisco applauds and continues to emphasize the importance of the govenment sharing actionable cyber threat information with the private sector as quickly, and at the lowest level of classification, as possible.

July 28, 2021

HIGH TECH POLICY

Cisco Responds to Biden Administration Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity Memorandum

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Cisco's Eric Wenger, Senior Director of Technology Policy, Global Government Affairs, welcomes the continued attention that the U.S. federal government is applying to secure critical infrastructure (CI).

January 28, 2021

HIGH TECH POLICY

Are Openness and Security Both Possible in a 5G World?

2 min read

Well-designed, open wireless network architectures using Open RAN can actually yield security benefits over closed architectures, but federally-funded research is a critical step on that path.

September 22, 2020

HIGH TECH POLICY

Security in Open RAN Networks

4 min read

Many mobile network operators are considering deployment of open, decomposed, and modular radio access networks for 5G advanced wireless networks. The business rationale for adopting this network architecture is evident in light of the current state of the supply chain for network infrastructure. The current pool of vendors for technology in the Radio Access Network […]

January 18, 2019

HIGH TECH POLICY

Building an Effective Privacy Framework

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We are encouraged to see NIST building on the model of the highly successful Cybersecurity Framework CSF to address privacy and data protection concerns. The CSF has proved the power...

October 25, 2018

HIGH TECH POLICY

Fighting for Encryption & Security Around the World

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Last week, my colleagues Tim Fawcett, Matt Carling and I had the honour and pleasure of representing Cisco in a hearing before theAustralian Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security....