Monique Hart is a seasoned Information Risk and Security Professional with over 25 years of practical work experience in Information Risk Management, IT Policy and Governance, Vulnerability Management, and Incident Response. In addition, her work crosses multiple industries including Media and Entertainment, Product Management, Consulting, Corporate IT Risk Governance & Compliance, and Healthcare. Currently, she is the CISO/Executive Director of Information Security for Piedmont Healthcare – a 19-hospital system and the largest healthcare provider in Georgia. In this role, she is responsible for overseeing the management of material risk of electronic Health Care information and content as it pertains to Piedmont Healthcare’s business, employees, and patient information.

Before joining Piedmont in 2016, Hart led cybersecurity and governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) teams for Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, where she was responsible for patient safety by managing the assessment of, and incident response to, material risk of information and content. Part of her responsibilities included developing and implementing information security policy management, risk assurance, vulnerability management and incident response.

Prior to Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, Hart held a leadership role with The Coca-Cola Company (TCCC), where she served as the information risk manager for North America and manager of global vulnerability management for TCCC and Coca-Cola Bottlers.

Earlier in her career, she was the manager of information risk management for Turner Broadcasting and the divisional representative on the Time Warner IT security committee and Time Warner privacy counsel for Turner Broadcasting and CNN to help provide and develop a strategic focus in regards to security risk management.

 Hart’s portfolio includes coaching and peer development, diversity improvement, IT security control implementation and development, forensic analysis, and incident response.

She graduated magna cum laude with a degree in information technology and recently acquired her MBA with honors from Kennesaw State University. Hart is a HealthCare Information Security and Privacy Practitioner (HCISPP) and certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC). She is a member of the professional organizations InfraGard and H-ISAC (Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center) and is the Vice President of InfraGard Atlanta’s local chapter.