Biography
Eric A. Hibbard is the Director, Product Planning – Security at Samsung Semiconductor, Inc. and a cybersecurity and privacy leader with extensive experience in industry (PrivSec Consulting LLC, Hitachi, Raytheon, Hughes, OAO Corp), U.S. Government (NASA, DoE, DoD), and academia (University of California). He also has experience architecting and auditing information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructures and solutions involving a wide range of technologies (IoT, cloud, storage, big data, AI, smart cities, blockchain) in organizations throughout the world.
Mr. Hibbard is an Associate Member of the American Bar Association (ABA), serving as a member of the ABA Section of Science and Technology Law Council, ABA Artificial Intelligence Task Force, ABA Cybersecurity Legal Task Force, and the Co-Chair of the ABA Internet of Things (IoT) Committee. He also holds leadership positions in standards development organization and industry associations, where he serves as the Chair of INCITS Technical Committee Cybersecurity & Privacy, Chair of IEEE Cybersecurity & Privacy Standards Committee, Co-Chair of the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) International Standardization Council, and Chair of the SNIA Security Technical Work Group (TWG). Hibbard is or has served in an editorship role on the following international standards projects: ISO/IEC 22123 (Cloud computing – Vocabulary/Concepts/Reference Architecture), ISO/IEC 27050 (Electronic discovery series), ISO/IEC 27040 (Storage security), ISO/IEC PAS 20648 (TLS for storage systems), ISO/IEC 27404 (Cybersecurity labelling framework for consumer IoT) and IEEE 1619-2018 (XTS-AES).
Mr. Hibbard possesses a unique set of professional credentials that include the (ISC)2 CISSP-ISSAP, ISSMP, and ISSEP certifications; IAPP FIP, CIPP/US and CIPT certifications; ISACA CISA and CDPSE certifications; and CSA CCSK certification. He has a BS in Computer Science.