Craig
Taylor
Leadership Role
Acting
Chief Information Officer - Office of Digital Transformation
Craig Taylor is the Acting Chief Information Officer (CIO) at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. In this role Mr. Taylor sets and leads the agency’s Information Technology (IT) strategy, as well as the agency’s enterprise IT, data management, and cybersecurity within the Office of Digital Transformation. Prior to being named acting CIO, Mr. Taylor served as the FDA’s Chief Information Security Officer, since 2015, directing and leading the FDA Cybersecurity, Counterintelligence, and Insider Threat Program to ensure security controls are appropriately applied to FDA IT systems to protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of data and sensitive information.
Before joining the FDA, Mr. Taylor was an official at the Office of the National Counterintelligence Executive, under the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. As a cybersecurity leader and veteran cryptologist, he built teams of counterintelligence, security, and cyber subject matter experts thwarting hackers and uncovering vulnerabilities, and risks exploited by foreign intelligence services, trusted insiders, transnational criminal organizations, and other adversarial threats. He also served at the Defense Intelligence Agency, the Defense Information Systems Agency, Office of Naval Intelligence and at multiple overseas locations and aboard naval ships.
Mr. Taylor served twenty-one years in the United States Navy as a Cryptologic Technician (Communications) Master Chief Petty Officer. He holds a Master of Science, Telecommunications from George Mason University and Bachelor of Science, Information Systems Management from the University of Maryland, University College.