Bryson Payne

Dr. Bryson Payne is an award-winning cyber coach, author, TEDx speaker, and the founding Director of the Center for Cyber Operations Education at the University of North Georgia. A tenured professor of computer science at UNG, he coached the cyber ops team that won first place at the 2019 NSA Codebreaker Challenge. Dr. Payne is a Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH), and holds elite cybersecurity certifications in CISSP, GIAC, GPEN, GRID, and GREM. He also enjoys working with K-12 schools worldwide to promote CS education, and lives in Atlanta with his wife Bev and their two sons.