Nathan Taylor, a 16-year FBI veteran, has been promoted to assistant director of the bureau’s information technology applications and data division.
He held the deputy assistant director post within the division for three years before his promotion and is now responsible for overseeing the applications and information services that support the FBI’s administrative, investigative, cybersecurity and intelligence processes, the FBI said Monday.
Taylor supported cloud service adoption and cybersecurity initiatives in his more recent role at ITADD.
His FBI career started in 2006 as an accounting analyst for the finance division and he later served as a management and program analyst. The bureau also assigned him to the front office of the budget and accounting sections and the internal advisory group.
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