Kurt Sanger

Kurt Sanger is a cybersecurity and data privacy attorney with Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps for over 23 years as a cyber operations attorney, criminal defense counsel and prosecutor, adviser to the Afghan National Army, international law instructor at the Marine Corps University and National Defense University, and as a planning officer with U.S. Central Command. He earned a degree in national security law from Georgetown University in 2015. From 2014 to 2017, Kurt was general counsel for U.S. Marine Corps Forces Cyberspace Command. He served with U.S. Cyber Command from 2017 to 2022, first as the lead attorney for plans, policy, domestic and international partnerships, and legislative affairs; later as lead attorney for operations and intelligence; and finally as the command’s deputy general counsel. He retired from the Marine Corps in November 2022. Kurt is also a non-resident fellow with the Army Cyber Institute at West Point.