Ryan Cummings
Founder, DreiBerge Group Consulting
- Focus
- AI enablement, automation, and integrations that return time and money to the business, built to clear security review
- Sectors
- Healthcare, Health insurance, Senior living, Defense, Government, Financial services, Property tech
- Status
- Available for new engagements

Leading both AI and security, Ryan ran both disciplines at once: architecting AI-driven operating systems for new business lines (using autonomous AI agents with privacy controls and secure-AI-design principles embedded directly into the architecture) and building the company's AI governance framework and inaugural SOC 2 Type 2 program so the business could stand behind them. That combination is why his AI work ships: it's built by someone who has also been the person who has to approve it.
His AI experience isn't theoretical. Ryan has delivered firm-wide AI enablement training for organizations outside his own, connected AI agents into the CRM, email, and document systems a business already runs on, and carried AI proof-of-concepts through security review and reliability testing into shipped, production-grade services: the practical, ship-it track record behind DGC's AI Enablement, AI Automation, AI Integrations, and Enterprise AI Readiness services.
Why the AI work clears review: a long security track record underneath it. Ryan has built and led security programs from the ground up across healthcare, insurance, senior living, and defense: standing up global information security programs across international teams, leading HITRUST/HIPAA/SOC 2 Type 2 compliance through post-acquisition transformations, building two SOC 2 Type 2 programs from zero that have never had a finding, and taking an inherited program with prior findings through its first clean report. Earlier in his career he led IT security and infrastructure in high-stakes, regulated government and healthcare environments.
DreiBerge is German for “three mountains”: Ryan has three kids, each named after a mountain.
Services
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- AI Enablement & Adoption Training
- AI Automation
- AI Integrations
- Enterprise AI Readiness
- AI Governance & Risk Advisory
Security leadership
- Fractional / Virtual CISO
- Security Program Buildout
- Compliance & Audit Readiness
- Board & Executive Advisory
Speaking
2025.11
AI and Law: Tools for All
Speaker, Iowa State Bar Association (Webinar)
Examined AI tools like Harvey AI for legal teams through the lens of risk management, compliance, and scalable implementation, evaluating AI adoption as a business decision, not just an efficiency play.
2025
AI in Business: Ethics, Security & Enablement (opens in a new tab)
Speaker, Secure Iowa Conference
2025
AI Risk Panel (opens in a new tab)
Panelist, Secure Iowa Conference
2024
CISO Panel (opens in a new tab)
Panelist, Secure Iowa Conference
Quick answers
What people ask most, answered directly.
- Who is Ryan, and what does he work on?
Ryan works with organizations as a fractional Head of AI: confident people, working automations, and agents connected to the systems the business already runs on. He led both AI and security at one company, and CISO at two others before that, so what he ships holds up to a security review.
- What sectors has he worked in?
Healthcare, Health insurance, Senior living, Defense, Government, Financial services: regulated, high-stakes environments where compliance complexity is the norm, not the exception.
- Where does security fit into his AI work?
From the start: access controls, data governance, and the security review that takes AI from demo to production. Security is built into the AI work rather than bolted on afterward.
- What does an engagement look like?
An ongoing plan. Month one is discovery and a ranked list of where AI will return the most time; every month after runs The Three Peaks:
- Enable
- Automate
- Secure
Questions about AI itself, like which model to use or what it costs, are answered here. Have a different question? Ask directly
