Rhode Island’s cybersecurity leadership spans healthcare, higher education, banking, and state government, reflecting how central security has become across the state’s most important institutions. The leaders in this group are helping protect hospitals, universities, public systems, and financial organizations where resilience, trust, and operational continuity are critical.
Anthony Siravo — Vice President and Virtual Information Security Officer, Brown University Health
Anthony Siravo serves as Vice President and VISO at Brown University Health, where he leads security in one of the region’s most significant healthcare environments. His background reflects deep experience in building enterprise security programs from the ground up, including securing tens of thousands of medical devices and enterprise assets across hospitals and outpatient facilities. He has been recognized with a CSO50 award, built and retained a security team from zero to fourteen professionals in one year, and is noted for concise board-level communication on today’s threat landscape and practical security priorities.
Michael Khalfayan — Chief Information Security Officer, University of Rhode Island
Michael Khalfayan serves as Chief Information Security Officer at the University of Rhode Island, where he has spent years helping shape the institution’s information security program. His career combines long-standing higher education leadership with earlier private-sector experience in network and security roles at HealthcareSource and Hasbro. That mix of academic and enterprise experience gives him a strong foundation for leading cybersecurity at a public university where research, academic systems, and institutional operations all intersect.
Nathan Loura — Chief Information Security Officer, State of Rhode Island
Nathan Loura serves as Chief Information Security Officer for the State of Rhode Island. His background combines public-sector cybersecurity leadership with experience in the Air Force, management consulting at McKinsey, financial services at Citizens, and security leadership roles at UNFI and CVS Health. With expertise spanning NIST, CMMC, cloud security, vendor risk, vulnerability management, and incident response, he brings a broad operational and governance perspective to statewide cybersecurity leadership.
Mark Dieterich — Chief Information Security Officer, Brown University
Mark Dieterich is Chief Information Security Officer at Brown University and also serves as HIPAA Security Officer. His career has focused heavily on academic-sector cybersecurity, with emphasis on risk assessment, incident response preparedness, compliance, and security awareness across large university environments. He is recognized for building collaboration across technical and executive teams and for leading security education efforts that help users across campus understand their responsibilities in protecting infrastructure and sensitive data.
Brendan Goode — Chief Security Officer, Citizens
Brendan Goode serves as Chief Security Officer at Citizens in Providence, Rhode Island. He brings extensive experience leading complex, global teams across cybersecurity, fraud, physical security, resilience, engineering, and operations. Before joining Citizens, he held senior leadership roles at Commonwealth Bank, Citi, Deutsche Bank, and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, where he was involved in major national cybersecurity protection initiatives. His background makes him one of the most globally experienced security leaders in Rhode Island’s financial sector.
Rhode Island’s Cybersecurity Bench Spans Critical Sectors
What stands out in Rhode Island is the concentration of cybersecurity leadership across mission-critical sectors. From healthcare systems and universities to state government and major financial institutions, these leaders are helping shape how security strategy is executed in environments where disruption carries serious operational and public consequences.
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