Bridging Innovation, Governance, and Patient Safety

Iriza Innovation LLC is a California-based cybersecurity and risk governance consultancy focused on digital health and healthcare organizations operating in complex, highly regulated environments.

Our guiding principle is simple:
security should enable safe, resilient healthcare delivery—not impede it.

Healthcare organizations are rapidly adopting telehealth, cloud platforms, AI-enabled diagnostics, connected devices, and remote monitoring. These innovations expand access and efficiency, but they also introduce new cybersecurity, privacy, and operational risks that directly affect patient safety, regulatory compliance, and organizational resilience.

Traditional cybersecurity approaches often treat healthcare like generic enterprise IT—emphasizing rigid controls and checklist compliance that can disrupt clinical workflows, delay initiatives, and create unintended safety risks. Iriza takes a different approach.

We help organizations design and govern risk-based, patient-centered security programs aligned with recognized frameworks such as the HIPAA Security Rule, HHS 405(d) Health Industry Cybersecurity Practices (HICP), the NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF), and emerging AI risk governance standards. Our work balances regulatory expectations, operational realities, and strategic objectives—so leaders can move forward with confidence.

Our Philosophy

• Patient-Centered, Risk-Based Security

  In healthcare, cybersecurity failures can translate into patient harm, delayed care, and loss of trust. We design controls and governance structures that protect confidentiality, integrity, availability, and safety, while respecting clinical workflows and care delivery realities.

• Proportional Governance Over Security Theater

  We do not pursue “perfect” security or unnecessary controls. Our guidance is risk-based and proportional, tailored to organizational size, maturity, and threat exposure. We focus on controls that materially reduce risk and align with recognized security practices under HIPAA and HHS 405(d).

• Executive Clarity and Accountability

  Cybersecurity is a governance issue, not just a technical one. We translate technical risk into clear executive and board-level language, enabling informed oversight, defensible decision-making, and transparent communication with regulators, partners, insurers, and investors.

Leadership: Founder & Principal Consultant

Iriza Innovation LLC is led by a senior cybersecurity and risk governance professional with more than seven years of hands-on experience supporting healthcare and technology organizations.

The firm’s leadership combines:

• Advanced academic training in cybersecurity and emerging technologies

• Graduate-level specialization in digital health, cybersecurity, and project management

• Practical experience conducting security risk assessments, policy development, and governance programsaligned with HIPAA, NIST, and healthcare-specific best practices

This background enables Iriza to operate effectively across executive leadership, clinical stakeholders, engineering teams, and compliance functions—bridging strategy, governance, and implementation.

Iriza Innovation was founded to address a growing gap in the market:
many healthcare and digital health organizations face enterprise-level cybersecurity and AI governance risk but are not positioned for a full-time Chief Information Security Officer.

We provide that leadership on a fractional, advisory, and programmatic basis, helping organizations establish credible security governance, demonstrate reasonable and recognized security practices, and build long-term resilience without unnecessary overhead.