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Troy Ament, Global Industry Leader, Healthcare
Palo Alto Networks
Troy Ament brings more than 20 years of experience transforming information technology and security programs, with 17 years in the healthcare sector as an executive overseeing clinical technology implementations and serving as the Chief Information Security Officer at two of the largest integrated health delivery systems in the United States.
Before joining Palo Alto Networks, Troy held the positions of Field Chief Information Security Officer at Fortinet, Chief Information Security Officer at Beaumont Health and Director, Chief Information Security Officer at Sanford Health where he had oversight of the Security Technology, Security Operations, Identity and Access Management, and Governance Risk and Compliance (GRC) Teams.
Troy has been instrumental in forming multiple healthcare cybersecurity boards that focus on the medical device and IoT security and national healthcare cyber security task forces and engaging the education sector to produce more healthcare cyber security graduates and professionals. Troy has extensive public speaking experience at multiple national and regional conferences, speaking to members of congress, senate, and government agencies educating and advocating for healthcare cyber security. He holds degrees in computer information systems from the University of Mary and North Dakota State College of Science.