Ada Rivera Cissp

Ada Rivera CISSP, HCISPP serves as the Director of CyberSecurity Assurance & Compliance at Mars since September 2019, after holding various senior roles in security assurance and compliance. Previously, Ada held the position of IS Team Lead for Information Security and Compliance at Northwestern Medicine, where responsibilities included being a HIPAA Security Rule Subject Matter Expert and implementing risk management processes. Prior experience as a Sr. Systems Engineer at Polycom involved supporting technical solutions across multiple sectors, including healthcare. Earlier, Ada contributed as a Technical Lead and Application System Administrator at Cadence Health, focusing on security controls and data center migrations while overseeing application workflows in a hospital environment. Ada Rivera holds a Master’s Degree in Health Informatics and a Bachelor of Science in Biology from the University of Illinois Chicago.