Russ has spent the last 35 years working in IT. The last 25 years have been focused exclusively on Information Security, Privacy, Risk Management and Compliance primarily in Retail, Manufacturing and Distribution, Financial Services & Healthcare space i.e. Payer's, Providers, PBM, HIEs and with Healthcare SAAS vendors He has served as the CSO / CISO for a number of fortune 500 companies both on a full time as well as on an interim basis. He is CISSP, CISA, CGEIT & CCSFP (HITRUST) certified; and is very familiar with all common security frameworks including HITRUST, CMS / ARS, NIST 800-53, ISO 27001/2, ISO 23301, ISO 27004, ISO 27005, ISO 27799 and COBIT.