Securing Healthcare: Minimizing Risk in an Ever-Changing Threat Landscape – Source: www.databreachtoday.com

Rick Bryant

Healthcare Chief Technology Officer, Rubrik

Rick Bryant is the Healthcare Chief Technical Officer for Rubrik. In this role, he leads initiatives within Rubrik to serve the healthcare information technology industry through technology excellence and process solutions. Rick has a passion for patient security, privacy, and data driven outcomes. Rick brings over 30 years of industry experience, with roles spanning from Chief Information Officer to Chief Information Security Officer, where he was responsible for architecting and implementing EMR systems.

Prior to joining Rubrik, Rick served as the Healthcare Chief Technical Officer for Veritas Technologies LLC where he drove a cyber resilience strategy for healthcare. Rick built a successful healthcare practice and architecture for Symantec Corporation. Past positions include Chief Information Security Officer at Texas Children’s Hospital and Executive Manager of Infrastructure for M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, TX. Rick developed and led the first Shared Services Organization for Hearst and Managed outsourced services for the global IT service provider, WiPro. In addition, he created and managed all client IT services for First Data Corporation.

Rick holds a degree from the University of Texas at Austin and is a certified in both Six Sigma Black Belt and ITIL.