With a career spanning nearly 20 years, Sonia E. Arista is the Director of Information Security at Tufts Medical Center in Boston. There, she is the information security Subject Matter Expert and also has extensive experience driving program development, assuring operational readiness to address organizational data security risk, and supporting governance. She has previously presented at the Institute for International Research (IIR) in Chicago and holds a CISM and a B.B.A. in Management Information Sciences and a B.A. in Latin American Studies from Southern Methodist University. She is a Founding Member of the Assc. for Executives in Healthcare Information Security (AEHIS) and a member of Massachusetts HIMSS, Mass Health Data Consortium and NAISG Boston.