Richard Clayton
Director Information Security
Columbus, Ohio Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRichard Clayton is a seasoned information security leader with 11+ years building and scaling enterprise security programs across healthcare and financial services, now serving as Director of Information Security at Baylor Scott & White Health. He has deep hands-on experience implementing SIEM/SOAR, DLP, vulnerability management, PCI P2PE and incident response programs, and has grown security teams to 30+ while guiding acquisitions and complex vendor negotiations. Known for translating regulatory frameworks (NIST CSF, CIS, HIPAA, PCI) into pragmatic governance, Richard has repeatedly taken organizations from gaps to compliance and engineered major security architecture replacements. He pairs technical rigor—penetration testing, IAM, network hardening—with business-facing skills in risk, legal, and treasury to enable secure digital transformation. Based in Columbus, Ohio, he completed a Master’s in Cybersecurity and often combines a consultant’s breadth with an operator’s focus on measurable risk reduction.
11 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Cybersecurity, Master's degree Cybersecurity at Franklin UniversityPalo Verde High SchoolBachelor of Arts - BA Law & Society, Bachelor of Arts - BA Law & Society at UC Santa Barbara
English
Github Skills (17)
asciidoctor4
jekyll4
dnd-tools4
nodejs4
revel4
javascript3
golang3
java2
mysql2
spring2
ansible-role2
vagrant2
spring-boot2
ansible2
dropwizard2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
the-terribles/evergreen
Feb 2016 - Apr 2016
"Refreshing" take on Node Configuration
Contributions:34 commits in 1 month
javascriptnodejsnode
rclayton/vagrant-mysql
Jul 2014 - Jan 2015
Contributions:3 commits, 1 push, 3 comments in 5 months
deploymentansiblevagrantmysql
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