Eric C. Thompson

Eric Thompson is an accomplished governance, risk and compliance professional. In his GRC role as the Director of Compliance at Blue Health Intelligence (BHI), Eric leads efforts to increase cyber security maturity in several domains including governance, policy and controls, risk management, cyber security strategy and business alignment. He established the risk management function which includes assessment, analysis and treatments of risks, threat and vulnerability management strategy and due diligence requirements for assessing third-party risk. Eric also assesses cybersecurity technology capabilities recommending enhancements to current solutions and new implementations that meet risk reduction requirements. Prior to BHI, Eric spent seven years at Ernst & Young in the Advisory practice where he specialized in helping healthcare organizations (providers, payers and business associates) solve problems related to information security, risk management and compliance when dealing with electronic medical records. Eric lead HITRUST Common Security Framework (CSF) cybersecurity program management and third-party risk management assessments. Eric is also a proud member of the SANS Mentor team.