Erik Dierks

Erik Dierks is an IT Security Director who builds practical, risk-based security programs for complex and highly regulated environments. His experience spans healthcare and other industries governed by HIPAA, PCI, NIST, and applicable privacy regulations, where security controls must withstand regulatory, contractual, and audit scrutiny while still supporting the business. Erik pairs strategic leadership with deep technical expertise. He has secured Microsoft-centric enterprise environments and modern cloud infrastructure, with a focus on identity and access management, privileged access, endpoint security, data protection, logging, and threat detection.