Louisiana’s healthcare sector depends on cybersecurity leaders who can protect sensitive systems without disrupting care delivery, operational continuity, or patient trust. The people in this feature reflect that responsibility across hospitals, healthcare platforms, and health-focused technology organizations. Their backgrounds span information security, infrastructure, compliance, operations, and the broader work of helping healthcare organizations stay resilient in environments where uptime and data protection both matter.
Rhett Roy — Director and Chief Information Security Officer, Woman’s Hospital
Rhett Roy serves as director and chief information security officer at Woman’s Hospital, where his long tenure reflects deep experience across healthcare IT infrastructure, security, and operational leadership. Before taking on the CISO title in 2024, he spent years in senior infrastructure and information security roles at the organization, including director of infrastructure, information security officer, IT director, and manager of network and data center operations. His background stands out for combining cybersecurity governance with hands-on leadership in Epic implementation, disaster recovery, IAM, vendor management, network modernization, and HIPAA-aligned risk management across a major healthcare environment.
Ken Porter — Director of Operations | Information Security Officer, Hyve Health
Ken Porter holds a hybrid role at Hyve Health that blends operational oversight with information security responsibility, giving him a profile that is somewhat different from a traditional standalone CISO. His background is more operations-heavy, but that is part of what makes him notable in a healthcare context, where financial workflow integrity, reconciliation, auditing, and system trust all matter. Earlier roles at Hancock Whitney, Union Savings Bank, Deutsche Bank, and State Street Bank add experience in process discipline, controls, and high-stakes transactional environments, which can translate well into security-conscious healthcare operations.
Wayman Cummings — Chief Information Security Officer, Ochsner Health
Wayman Cummings serves as vice president and chief information security officer at Ochsner Health, where he leads enterprise-wide cybersecurity strategy for one of Louisiana’s most prominent healthcare organizations. His profile highlights experience building and leading operational security teams in large, complex environments, with strengths spanning security intelligence, incident response, vulnerability management, risk management, and compliance-driven operations. At Ochsner, that background translates into work centered on protecting sensitive patient information, strengthening organizational resilience, and aligning cybersecurity strategy with the mission and operational demands of healthcare delivery.
Matthew Dovie — VP, Information Security Officer, Trilliant Health
Matthew Dovie serves as vice president and information security officer at Trilliant Health, bringing a background rooted in governance, risk management, compliance, and enterprise security leadership. Before joining Trilliant Health, he served as chief information security officer at MotionPoint and held senior information security and compliance leadership roles at Kobie Marketing, alongside ongoing advisory and academic work through DRYVE and Tulane University. His profile stands out for the way it combines security operations, data protection, privacy, and integrated risk management with an emphasis on communicating across business and technical teams, which is especially valuable in health-related organizations handling sensitive data and regulated environments.
Where healthcare security meets operational trust
What ties this group together is that healthcare cybersecurity is rarely just about security tooling alone. It is tied to patient confidence, clinical continuity, privacy obligations, and the reliability of systems that staff depend on every day. These leaders reflect different paths into that work, from hospital infrastructure and platform security to operational oversight and executive advisory, but each one represents the growing importance of cyber leadership in Louisiana’s healthcare ecosystem.
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