Scottsdale, Arizona
Harry Kurland
Senior Named Account Manager - Healthcare, Proofpoint | Scottsdale, Arizona
Scottsdale, Arizona
Senior Named Account Manager - Healthcare, Proofpoint | Scottsdale, Arizona
About
I'm a Senior Named Account Manager at Proofpoint, covering healthcare accounts. My passion for cybersecurity in the healthcare space developed while working closely with a hospital that suffered a breach, and I saw firsthand what that meant beyond the headlines: an IT staff working through countless sleepless nights just to get systems back online so patients could receive critical care. That experience changed how I think about this work. I'm proud to be on the front lines helping healthcare organizations protect patient safety and stay compliant against a threat landscape that isn't slowing down.
My Objectives
My focus is straightforward: work alongside healthcare IT and security teams to safeguard patients and keep their organizations compliant. Most breaches don't start with a sophisticated exploit, they start with a person: a misdirected email, an overshared file, a moment of good judgment gone wrong under pressure. That risk is compounding fast as GenAI tools spread through the workplace, since a single careless prompt can expose PHI or other sensitive data as easily as a phishing click ever did.
That's the problem I help healthcare organizations solve. Proofpoint takes a human-centric approach to security, built around the reality that people, and increasingly AI agents, are both the primary target and the primary risk. In practice, that means Email Protection to stop threats before they reach an inbox, DLP to catch sensitive data leaving where it shouldn't, DSPM to give visibility into where sensitive data actually lives and who or what can reach it, and CASB to extend that same protection into the cloud apps healthcare teams depend on. Brought together, the goal is fewer blind spots and fewer alerts that don't matter, so your team can focus on the risks that do.
How I Work
Before anything else, I want to understand your goals, your priorities, and what's actually keeping you up at night, not close a deal. Character and integrity matter more to me than a signed PO. If you work with me, you'll get a responsive, customer-centric partner who acts as your ambassador inside Proofpoint. I don't have all the answers. What I do have is the ability to find who does and make sure you get them.
Resources
My current employer. Threat protection and compliance solutions built for organizations, including healthcare, defending against today's threat landscape.
A global professional organization for healthcare IT leaders, with a strong focus on health information and technology strategy.
A trusted, member-driven community where healthcare organizations share threat intelligence and best practices to stay ahead of physical and cyber threats.
A free, independent tracker of ransomware group activity and victim disclosures, useful for situational awareness.
A nonprofit delivering neuroscience-backed resilience training to reduce burnout for cybersecurity teams working under sustained pressure.
Background
My path here goes back nearly two decades in enterprise technology sales, with a focus on data protection specifically for close to ten years now. I spent time at Veeam in data security and enterprise technology, including my introduction to the IT channel, and was the first sales hire at Object First, where I helped build the Americas go-to-market from the ground up before the company was acquired by Veeam. Many of our customers there were healthcare organizations, which is where this focus started to take shape. Earlier roles at ZocDoc, Yelp, and G/O Digital rounded out the foundation.
Outside of Work
Husband to a Doctor of Nursing Practice, father of two, and an Arizona outdoorsman. When I'm not working, I'm usually fishing, hiking, or on a trail somewhere in the state.