Robert Hughes

As the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), Robert Hughes leads the Security and Risk Office and is responsible for ensuring the security of RSA products and solutions and the RSA corporate environment, leading the organization’s cybersecurity, Information Security Governance Risk and Compliance (GRC), corporate physical security, privacy, product and IT application security functions. Rob has more than 25 years of experience leading security and cloud infrastructure teams, including life-critical operations and business-critical PCI-DSS level 1 transaction processing environments. Previously, he worked in the Philips Home Monitoring division, leading the Security and Systems Design team and co-founded the original Geek.com website, where he served as Chief Technologist. Rob has a BA in Computer Science and Mathematics from Brandeis University.