Eric Wenger

Eric Wenger is Director for Cybersecurity and Privacy on Cisco’s Global Government Affairs team in Washington, D.C. where he leads Cisco’s work on cybersecurity policy globally. Wenger came to Cisco from Microsoft, where he was Policy Counsel in the Legal and Corporate Affairs Department. Eric held a number of roles in government, including as a Trial Attorney in USDOJ’s Computer Crime & Intellectual Property Section and a Special Assistant U.S. Attorney in Washington, DC’s Computer Hacking and Intellectual Property Unit. He served as an Attorney in the Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Consumer Protection, Attorney Advisor to FTC Commissioner Tom Leary, and an Assistant Attorney General in NY, where he started the first statewide law enforcement unit in the U.S. focused on e-commerce.