Full Name
Mr. Erik Decker
Job Title
AVP & CISO
Company
Intermountain Healthcare
Speaker Bio
Erik Decker is the Chief Security and Privacy Officer for the University of Chicago Medicine, and is responsible for its Cybersecurity, Identity and Access Management and Privacy Program. Erik has 20 years of experience within Information Technology, with 14 years focused on Information Security. The majority of his career has been focused on Academic Medical Centers; establishing two information security programs and an identity and access management program.

He is currently Co-Leading a Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) task group of more than 250 industry and government experts across the country for implementing the Cybersecurity Act of 2015, 405D legislation within the Healthcare sector. The publication was released in December 2018, titled “Health Industry Cybersecurity Practices: Managing Threats and Protecting Patients” aka HICP. Additionally, he led the development of the Health Industry Cybersecurity Tactical Crisis Response guide (HIC-TCR) under the same working group. He is also a member of the Executive Council of the Healthcare Sector Coordinating Council’s Joint Cybersecurity Work, which is a public-private workgroup formed under the National Infrastructure Protection Plan.

In November of 2019 he was awarded the ISE® North America Executive: Academic/Public Sector. In 2018 he served as an expert witness to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Health. In October of 2017 he was awarded the Chicago CISO of the Year.

Erik earned his Masters of Science in Information Technology from Loyola University in Chicago and Bachelors degree of the University of Illinois in Champaign/Urbana in Cell and Structural Biology.
Erik Decker