Kelvin Taylor, NASA Senior Agency Information Security Officer

Kelvin Taylor is NASA’s Senior Agency Information Security Officer (SAISO) and Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for Cybersecurity and Privacy. In those roles he implements federal cybersecurity mandates, strengthens compliance with statutory and regulatory requirements, and directs development, execution, and oversight of agencywide cybersecurity policies, procedures, and digital infrastructure modernization initiatives to enhance the agency’s cybersecurity posture, operational resiliency, and mission continuity.

His leadership advances the robustness, safety, and efficiency of IT systems. A federal cybersecurity executive with more than 20 years of experience, he brings extensive expertise in security assessment and authorization under the National Institute of Standards and Technology Risk Management Framework, vulnerability management, continuous diagnostics and mitigation, incident response, and lifecycle security engineering.

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