Hi everyone!
I'm honored and ecstatic to be a part of your journey here.
By day I lead cyber program management and third-party risk at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, which means I spend most of my time where these three subjects stop being abstract. Data security stops being a policy document the moment a vendor breach exposes patient records. Privacy stops being a checkbox the moment an algorithm decides who gets flagged for follow-up care. Ethics stops being a seminar question the moment the person on the other end of the data is a patient who never consented to any of it.
The lens I bring to this course is simple: the most dangerous risks rarely fail at the center of any one domain. They fail quietly at the seams, in the gaps between where security ends, privacy begins, and ethics gets handed to someone else. Much of the semester will live in those seams.
I hold a Doctorate in information technology, along with Masters degrees spanning information systems, business, and healthcare administration, and I still learn something every time these three subjects collide with the real world. I expect this cohort to teach me as much as I teach it.
I want the hard questions. The comfortable ones are already answered.
Omar Sangurima, MIS, MBA, MHA, DIT