Richard H.L. Marshall is the Principle Deputy Director, Critical Infrastructure Assurance Office (CIAO). The CIAO helps coordinate the development of the Administration’s National Strategy for Critical infrastructure Protection to address threats to the Nation’s communications and electronic systems, transportation, energy, banking and finance, health and medical services, water supply, and key government services. The CIAO also assists Federal departments and agencies identify their dependencies on critical infrastructure under the Project Matrix program and coordinates national awareness, education and outreach efforts to private industry and State and Local governments.

Before joining the CIAO, Mr. Marshall was the Associate General Counsel for Information Systems Security/Information Assurance, Office of the General Counsel, National Security Agency. In that capacity, Mr. Marshall provided advice and counsel on national security telecommunications and technology transfer policies and programs, the National Information Assurance Partnership, the Common Criteria Mutual Recognition Arrangement, legislative initiatives and international law. He has represented the United States before The High Court of Justice in London, and has addressed various international, Defense Department, Army, Navy, and Air Force legal conferences on information operations, twice sharing the podium with the Secretary of the Air Force.

Mr. Marshall has testified before Congressional subcommittees and is a frequent guest lecturer at the National Defense University and various law schools on a myriad of legal issues related to national security and cyber security issues. He is an articulate advocate of the need for the private and public sectors to work together to improve information assurance practices, policies, and technology.

Mr. Marshall is a graduate of The Citadel and the Georgetown School of Law. He has a LL.M. in International and Comparative Law and was a Fellow at the National Security Institute, University of Virginia School of Law.