Meet Scott
Scott Blough
CISSP
The Chief Information Security Officer and Executive Director of the Center for Cyber Defense & Forensics at Tiffin University. He is also an Associate Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice and Security Studies at Tiffin University, where he specializes in cyber security and digital forensics, policy development, international crime, and security studies.
Professor Blough served as the National Co-Chair for the Maritime Risk Symposium 2017: Cyber Security in the Maritime Transportation System and is a member of the United States Coast Guard Research and Development Center’s Maritime Cyber University Partnership Effort: Fostering Collaboration, Research & Contributions to the Body of Knowledge. He serves as a Strategic Advisor to the Maritime and Port Security Information Sharing and Analysis Organization. He has led research on unmanned aircraft and underwater vehicle vulnerabilities. He has conducted training for the United States Coast Guard, CISO Exchange, and numerous government and not-for-profit organizations. He is a member of InfraGard; the Ohio Cyber Collaboration Committee, where he is the Chair of the Governance Sub-Committee; the Information Systems Security Association Central Ohio Chapter; and is an active participant in the Information Security Summit.
He served on the Criminal Justice Information Systems Advisory Board during the mid-1990’s and was actively involved in criminal justice information system integration and access projects where he developed the initial security policies and protocols. He obtained grant funding to establish a NIBRS compliant records management system at the Marion Police Department and was responsible for the overall administration and security of the integrated in-car mobile data terminals. He has also consulted on numerous security projects in large metropolitan areas. He has authored numerous publications on cyber security, international justice issues, and consults on cyber security, security and justice policy, technology application, and corrections issues.
His publications include: “Maritime Cyber Security: What About Forensics’, Issues in Maritime Cyber Security (2017); “Cyber Shoal Waters: Understanding and Meeting Emerging Cyber Threats to the Marine Transportation System”, Maritime Reporter and Engineering News (2017); “Maritime Cyber Security: The Wrong Formula”, Maritime Reporter and Engineering News (2017). He was also featured as a “Pick of the Week” for December 4-8, 2017 for an interview on maritime cyber security with the World Maritime News (2017).