Christopher Taylor is a Cyber Engineering Team Lead in the Technology Security Strategy & Architecture department of Southern Company, with a focus on power delivery systems. The department is responsible for managing cyber security risk across the enterprise including development of reference security architectures, performing risk assessments and providing cyber security strategy, architecture and engineering services. At Southern he has spent the last seven years focused on cyber security for Power Delivery and has led efforts on strategy development, technology deployment and adoption of risk frameworks and assessments within the organization.

Christopher has seventeen years of experience in the cyber security field and previously worked as an officer in the U.S. Air Force and as a consultant at Booz Allen Hamilton. Christopher holds a CISSP certification and he received his Bachelor of Science in Computer Science & Engineering from the University of Florida and his Master of Science in Cybersecurity Technology from University of Maryland Global Campus.