Cyber Risk is Business Risk: A Georgia Tech Alum on What Leaders Must Learn in 2026

When Christopher Craig arrived at Georgia Tech as an undergraduate in 1995, the campus and the field of cybersecurity looked very different.

“It was the era of look left and look right, and one of you will not be here at graduation,” Craig said.

Craig worked hard and graduated with his computer science (CS) bachelor’s degree in 2000, just as the dot-com bubble burst. He returned to Georgia Tech about a year later and has been here ever since.

Craig is the enterprise cybersecurity architect in the Office of Information Technology and has spent nearly three decades at Tech as a student, employee, and instructor.