"We are no longer in the world of the teenagers, " says Marcus Sachs of Herndon, Va.

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"We are no longer in the world of the teenagers, " says Marcus Sachs of Herndon, Virginia, director of the Sans Internet Storm Center.

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Marcus Sachs, the executive director of national security policy at Verizon (nyse: VZ - news - people ), was hopeful that Chertoff's appeal to the private sector at RSA might mean more information sharing with those critical infrastructure systems.

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