Mr. Rasch has spent the last 15 years consulting with commercial and governmental clients on matters related to computer security, regulatory compliance, electronic evidence handling and computer incident response. For the past three years he was the senior vice president and chief security counsel at solutionary. Prior to solutionary, Mr. Rasch helped establish the SAIC Center for Information Protection (CIP), a business unit within SAIC dedicated to commercial information security consulting. Starting with nine people, the CIP developed first into Global Integrity Corporation, a wholly owned SAIC subsidiary, and then was acquired by Predictive Systems, Inc. Prior to that, he was in private practice with the Washington, D.C. office of Arent, Fox, Kintner, Plotkin & Kahn.
While at the Department of Justice, he was responsible for investigations of computer hacking cases including those of the so-called “Hannover Hacker” ring, Kevin Mitnick, and was the lead prosecutor in United States v. Robert T. Morris, and against author of the Cornell Internet Worm in 1988. He helped the FBI and Treasury Department develop their original procedures on handling electronic evidence. He created and taught classes at the FBI Academy and the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center on electronic crime and evidence. He also investigated, prosecuted and handled appeals on complex white-collar criminal cases involving consumer protection fraud, banking and securities fraud, insider-trading, public corruption, Department of Defense procurement and contract fraud, counter-intelligence matters, export control, pharmaceutical fraud, and violations of federal mail fraud, wire fraud, tax fraud and Foreign Corrupt Practices Act laws. He was co-counsel in United States v. Lyndon LaRouche, as well as complex cases against organized crime figures.
He has taught evidence law at the Catholic University School of Law, and white collar and computer crime at the American University School of Law. He has taught other computer and privacy law courses and incident response classes at the University of Fairfax, George Washington University, George Mason University, and James Madison University. He has also lectured at Stanford University, Harvard University and Harvard Law School.
Mr. Rasch is frequently featured in the news media on issues related to technology, including security and privacy. He has appeared on or been quoted by NBC News, MSNBC, Fox News, CNN, The New York Times, Forbes, PBS, The Washington Post, NPR and other national and international media. He also writes a monthly column in Symantec’s Security Focus online magazine on issues related to law and technology, and is a regular contributor to Wired magazine. |