New Orleans-based Ochsner Health has named Wayman Cummings vice president and chief security and infrastructure officer.
He continues to serve as chief information security officer while also overseeing the health system’s technology infrastructure functions.
“The future of security and technology is not separation, but integration,” Mr. Cummings wrote Oct. 11 on LinkedIn.
Mr. Cummings joined Ochsner as CISO in November 2024 from food distributor Sysco, where he was deputy CISO. Before that, he was CISO and vice president of security operations at Unisys. He also spent nearly 12 years at IBM in security intelligence and security services leadership roles.
From 2006 to 2012, Mr. Cummings was president of InfraGard’s Central Texas chapter, part of an FBI program for sharing intelligence with the private sector.
Ochsner operates 47 hospitals and more than 370 health and urgent care centers across the Gulf South.
