Taylor Judd is an experienced cybersecurity operations leader currently serving as the Assistant Director of Cybersecurity Operations and Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where oversight includes Incident Response, Vulnerability, Cybersecurity Engineering, and Cybersecurity Development teams. Previous roles at the university included Acting Assistant Director of Information Security and Manager of Cybersecurity Infrastructure & Engineering. Prior to this, Taylor Judd worked at San Francisco State University, initially as a Systems Administrator and later as a System Administrator for Academic Technology, playing a key role in implementing the Moodle learning management platform. Taylor holds a Master’s degree in Instructional Technology and a Bachelor’s degree in English Literature from San Francisco State University.