Mark Weatherford is an American cybersecurity professional who has held a variety of executive level positions in both the public and private sectors.
He was appointed as the first deputy under secretary for cybersecurity in the Obama administration at the US Department of Homeland Security from 2011 to 2013.
He holds the Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) certification.
Before joining the DHS, he served (2010–11) as the vice president and chief security officer of the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC),[3] where he directed the organization's critical infrastructure and cybersecurity program for electric utilities across North America.
After leaving the DHS, he was a principal[6] with the Chertoff Group in Washington DC, and senior vice president and chief cybersecurity strategist of vArmour.