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Mr. Taylor leads the strategic direction and delivery of all technology and services for North America. He has spent his career focused on application development and testing with a primary focus on application security. His leadership and unrivaled understanding of application behavior provided the impetus for Security Innovation's industry pioneering fault injection tool, Holodeck Enterprise Edition, and critical enhancements to the Company's security services and technology. Mr. Taylor was the visionary and designer of the Company's "Creating Secure Code" course and manages a world-class Security Engineering Team on projects for major clients as Microsoft, HP, RSA, Symantec, ING and GE.
Prior to joining Security Innovation, Mr. Taylor served as test architect, security lead and development manager at Microsoft for various releases of Internet Explorer and Windows. He was the first member of the Internet Explorer security test team, and as the security team lead, he grew it from a solitary operation to the leading application security test team at Microsoft. Later, he built the Test Model Toolkit which became the standard model-based testing tool at Microsoft, winning a Best Practice Award along the way.
Mr. Taylor is an external reviewer, contributor and primary author for Microsoft patterns & practices security guidance. He has published several whitepapers including "Web Services Risk Assessment and Recommendations" and "Security Threats: Risks, Protection & Limitations" for CIO Update and co-authored "Team Development with Visual Studio Team Foundation Server" with J.D. Meier of Microsoft. Mr. Taylor received his C.S. degree from Montana State University. | 