Our April Transformational CISO and CISO Healthcare Assembly in April is right around the corner, and we are excited to officially announce our Keynote Speaker, Paul Connelly, Chief Information Security Officer for HCA Healthcare! With 18 years of experience leading HCA’s program and years of Information Security experience at the White House, the National Security Agency, and PricewaterhouseCoopers under his belt, Paul is sure to deliver an unforgettable keynote.

About Paul Connelly:

Paul Connelly is Chief Information Security Officer for HCA Healthcare. He leads the teams and programs for Cyber Security, Privacy, Data Retention, and Physical Security that protect the company’s 184 hospitals, more than 1200 outpatient and Physician clinics, 275,000 employees, and 32 million patient encounters each year.
Paul oversees a team of more than 240 and $100M annual budget for the enterprise programs that protect HCA Healthcare’s patient and business data, network, clinical systems, and digital transformation and innovation agenda – including health data exchange, Cloud, and data analytics. He works directly with senior management and the company Board of Directors.
Paul started as an information security analyst at the National Security Agency in 1984, spent nine years as Information Security Officer at the White House, and six years as a partner leading an information security audit and consulting group at PricewaterhouseCoopers. He has led HCA’s program since 2002.

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