Welcome, Vince Nguyen!

Welcome, Vince Nguyen, to the MedSec team as a Principal Consultant. Vince brings decades of experience in cybersecurity, product security, and regulated medical technology, with a career spanning senior leadership roles in industry as well as more than two decades of service in the U.S. Navy. Most recently, Vince served as a Senior Principal Engineer and Senior Security Program Manager for Software R&D at Medtronic, where he ensured security was embedded throughout the product lifecycle - from design and development through deployment, monitoring, and incident response.

His professional background includes deep leadership and hands-on expertise in:

• Product and system security architecture for medical devices and surgical robotics

• Vulnerability assessments, threat modeling, and security planning

• Secure development lifecycle practices (SAST, DAST, SCA, and penetration testing)

• Cybersecurity signal monitoring and incident response

• Regulatory and compliance alignment including HIPAA, SOC 2, NIST, ISO 2700x, and TIR 57

Previously, Vince served as Digital Health Cloud Cybersecurity Lead at Smith & Nephew, where he was responsible for the security and compliance of cloud-enabled medical technologies, coordinating closely with legal, privacy, compliance, sourcing, and R&D teams. He has also held multiple senior product security and system security architecture roles at Stryker, helping advance secure-by-design practices across medical device portfolios.

Earlier in his career, Vince spent over 22 years as an Information Professional Officer in the U.S. Navy, leading command, control, communications, computers, collaboration, and intelligence (C5I) systems across global deployments.

Vince holds a Master of Science in Computer Science from the Naval Postgraduate School, with a concentration in Autonomous Systems, as well as a Graduate Certificate in Space Systems. He completed Joint Professional Military Education (JPME) Phase I through the Naval War College and earned his Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin.