Scott Taylor
Senior Engineer, Global Threat Emulation
Columbia, Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolScott Taylor is a cybersecurity engineer with a decade of hands-on experience in adversary emulation, red teaming, and defensive collaboration, currently leading Global Threat Emulation at Sony. He combines deep Linux and networking roots (RHCE/RHCSA, CCENT) with practical SIEM and detection tuning expertise (Splunk certifications, Security+), and has built programs that turned red team findings into repeatable purple team detection improvements. At MITRE he helped develop and teach adversary emulation tooling and at T. Rowe Price launched a Purple Team program and agile processes to operationalize threat-driven detection engineering. Scott pairs a strong academic foundation (MS in Cybersecurity Technology, 3.9 GPA) with community engagement at conferences like ShmooCon and BSides, and is known for bridging research-grade tooling and enterprise readiness.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Information Technology, 3.65/4.0 GPA, Bachelor’s Degree, Information Technology, 3.65/4.0 GPA at Towson UniversityMaster of Science - MS, Cybersecurity Technology, 3.9/4.0, Master of Science - MS, Cybersecurity Technology, 3.9/4.0 at University of Maryland Global CampusCertification Program, Cisco Networking Academy, 4.0 GPA, Certification Program, Cisco Networking Academy, 4.0 GPA at Carroll County Career and Technology Center
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Github Skills (85)
security-automation10
emulation10
cybersecurity10
mitre-attack10
hacking10
plugin10
security-testing10
adafruit9
six9
i2c9
redirection9
pong8
bluepill8
golang8
attiny8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
scottctaylor12/Red-Lambda
Apr 2022 - Dec 2022
Leveraging AWS Lambda Function URLs for C2 Redirection
Contributions:4 commits, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 8 months
lambdaurlslambda-functionsleveragingserverless
scottctaylor12/scottctaylor12
Aug 2020 - May 2024
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 9 months
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