Rick Scot
Rick Scot
Bio:  Rick Scot is a member of the Bank of America Global Information Security (GIS) Cyber Crime
Prevention International team. He is the lead of the Europol OSINT Task Force and the banks
representative on the Ransomware Task Force, as well as a driver of the telecom work
centered around combating telecom scams. Rick is a Security Awareness for Everyone (SAFE)
facilitator. He sits on the strategic advisory board for the New York University Cyber
Fellowship and is a Mastermind mentor and sits on the Deans Advisory Board and Cyber
Symposium planning committee at University North Carolina, Charlotte, College of Computing
and Informatics, as well as a mentor.
Prior to his role with Cyber Crime Prevention, he was a member of the GIS Workforce
Strategy team and prior to that, supported the Cyber Public Policy team and served as
Program Manager for the creation and implementation of the Independent Assessment team,
where he designed playbooks and remediation processes, along with creating a system of
record and the Payment Card Industry (PCI) governance transformation. He also holds two
patents and has 15 patents pending. Before coming to GIS in 2016, Rick spent four years as a
Functional Architect within the home loans and servicing transformation, leading the data,
document, and imaging work. Since joining the bank in 2002 as a Senior Business Analyst, Rick
has held several positions within Mortgage Technology, including supporting online
operations, third party operations, internal lead management, and several data
transformations including the Countrywide transition.
Rick studied Communications at the University of Southern California.