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Biography

Dr. Blair Taylor is Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary and Innovation Cybersecurity (Cyber4All) at Towson University. Dr Taylor is an award-winning educator with 20+ years鈥� experience in academia. She is a national expert in cybersecurity education and curriculum development and worked with NSA鈥檚 College of Cyber as a Subject Matter Expert on long-term strategies to increase the pipeline of qualified students and build the nations鈥� cyber workforce. 

As a Professor in the Department of Computer and Information Sciences at Towson University, she has received over $12 million of external funding. Her projects include Security Injections @ Towson, which provides security modules for integrating security across the curriculum and is a national model for teaching secure coding to introductory programming students, and SPLASH, which offers Secure Programming Logic for college credit to high school girls. 

Dr. Taylor has received the University System of Maryland Regents Award for Teaching, the Fisher College of Science and Mathematics Outstanding Faculty Award, the Business Outreach Award and has been recognized as one of 5O Women to Watch by the Baltimore Sun Magazine and one of Maryland鈥檚 top female tech leaders by MDBIZNews. She holds a B.A. in Mathematical Science and an M.S. in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins University and a doctorate in Applied Information Technology from Towson University. 

Additionally, Dr. Taylor is the Co-Executive Director and Co-Founder of SecurEd (), a not-for-profit startup organization focused on helping academic institutions build a cyber-ready workforce.

Funded Grants:

Co-PI, 鈥淐yber4All: An Interdisciplinary Cybersecurity Minor for all Undergraduates,鈥� Funded by: National Science Foundation (NSF), 2015, $280,706, 2015-2017.

PI, 鈥淕enCyber SPLASH: Secure programming Logic Aimed at Students in High School鈥�, Funded by: National Science Foundation (NSF), 2014, $280,706, 2014-2015.

PI, 鈥淏alancing Privacy and Social Media鈥�,  Funded by: Intel Corporation, 2014, $10,000.

PI, 鈥淐yberWorkshops: Resources and, Strategies, and Support for Teaching Cybersecurity in Computer Science Courses (CReST),鈥� Funded by: National Science Foundation (NSF), 2014, $549,942 ($127,025 at TU), 2014-2016.

PI, 鈥淐yberSTARS SPLASH: Secure programming Logic Aimed at Students in High School鈥�, Funded by: National Science Foundation (NSF), 2013, $195,000, 2013-2014.

PI, 鈥淧rogramming Logic Aimed at Students in High School鈥�, Funded by: Department of Defense (DOD), 2012, $36,000, 2012-2013

Co-PI, 鈥淪ecurity Injections for CSO, CS1, and CS2:  Promoting Responsible Coding and Building a Community of Security Ambassadors,鈥� Funded by: National Science Foundation (NSF), 2012, $451,879, 2012-2015

Co-PI, 鈥淪cholarship for Service at Towson University,鈥� Funded by: National Science Foundation (NSF), 2012, $2,093,834, 2012-2016

PI, 鈥淏uilding Security In: Injecting Security throughout the Undergraduate Computing Curriculum,鈥� Funded by: National Science Foundation (NSF), 2008, $399,511, 2008-2011

Selected Publications and Presentations:

Siraj, A., B. Taylor, S. Kaza, S. Ghafoor (2015), 鈥淚ntegrating Security in the Computer Science Curriculum,鈥� ACM Inroads, 6(2), pp 77-81

Taylor, B., Kaza, S., Siraj, A., Ghafoor, S. (2015), 鈥淐ReST Workshop: Teaching Add-On Security Modules in Computing Curriculum,鈥� Women in Cybersecurity Conference, Atlanta, GA

Raina, S., Kaza, S. , Taylor, B. (2014), 鈥淪egmented and Interactive Modules for Teaching Secure Coding: A Pilot Study,鈥� International Conference on e-Learning e-Education and Online Training(ELeOt), Bethesda, MD

Taylor, B. and Kaza, S. (2014), 鈥淭eaching Secure Coding in Introductory Programming Courses,鈥� The 18th Colloquium for Information Systems Security Education (CISSE), San Diego, CA

Taylor, B., Kaza, S., Hawthorne, E., (2014), 鈥淚ntroducing Secure Coding in CS0, CS1, and CS2,鈥� ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE 2014), Atlanta, GA, ACM Press

Nance, K and Taylor, B. (2012), Teaching High School Students to Code Responsibly, Proceedings of the 16th Colloquium for Information Systems Security Education (CISSE), Lake Buena Vista, FL.

Perez, L, Cooper, S., Hawthorne, E., Wetzel, S., Taylor, B., et al. (2011), Information assurance education in two- and four-year institutions, Proceedings of the 16th annual conference reports on Innovation and technology in computer science education - working group reports (ITiCSE), Darmstadt, Germany

Research:

Co-PI, "Cyber4All: An Interdisciplinary Cybersecurity Minor for All Undergraduates", Funded by: National Science Foundation (NSF), $288,000, 2015-2017.

PI, "GenCyber SPLASH: Secure programming Logic Aimed at Students in High School,鈥� Funded by: National Science Foundation (NSF), $40,000, 2014-2015.

 PI, 鈥淏alancing Privacy and Social Media,鈥� Funded by: Intel Corporation, $10,000. 2014-2017.

Co-PI, "Collaborative Research:  CyberWorkshops: Resources and Strategies for Teaching Cybersecurity in Computer Science (CReST),鈥� Funded by: National Science Foundation (NSF), $549,942 ($127,028 at TU). 2014-2016.

PI, "GenCyber SPLASH: Secure programming Logic Aimed at Students in High School,鈥� Funded by: National Science Foundation (NSF), $95,000, 2013-2014.

Co-PI, 鈥淪ecurity Injections for CS0, CS1, and CS2: Promoting Responsible Coding and Building a Community of Security Ambassadors鈥�, Funded by: National Science Foundation (NSF), $451,879, 2012-2015.  

Co-PI, 鈥淐ybercorps: Scholarship for Service鈥�, Funded by: National Science Foundation (NSF), $2,100,000, 2012-2017.

Co-PI, 鈥淧rogramming Logic Course with Secure Coding for High School Girls鈥�, Funded by:  Department of Defense (DOD), 鈥� Information Assurance Scholarship Program, Capacity Building, $35,831, 2012-2013.

PI, 鈥淏uilding Security In: Injecting Security throughout the Undergraduate Computing Curriculum鈥�, Funded by: National Science Foundation (NSF), $399,511,  2008-2012.