Tony Sager

Tony Sager is Senior VP & Chief Evangelist for the Center for Internet Security. He started the work which became known as the CIS Critical Security Controls – an independent, volunteer-developed, cyber defense best practices program which is used throughout the industry. Sager retired from the National Security Agency in 2012 after 34 years as a mathematician, computer scientist, and executive manager. One of the Agency’s first Software Vulnerability Analysts, he led the System & Network Attack Center, NSA’s first defensive network security analysis organization. He led the release of NSA-developed security guidance to the public in 2001. Sager also founded the Vulnerability Analysis & Operations Group, NSA's top technical organization in defensive analysis.