Denise Anderson – President and CEO, Health-ISAC

Denise Anderson, MBA, is President and CEO of the Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center (Health-ISAC), a global, non-profit organization dedicated to providing a trusted forum for timely and valuable situational awareness health sector companies can use to make informed, risk-based decisions about the physical and cyber threats they face. Prior to Health ISAC, she was Vice President at FS-ISAC where for almost nine years she helped grow the ISAC and achieve its successful status in the information-sharing community. She has over thirty years of executive-level leadership in the private sector. Denise is currently Chair of the National Council of ISACs and serves on the following Boards: Global Resilience Federation (GRF), Cyber Future Foundation, and is an Advisor to the Cyber Working Group for the Health and Public Health Sector Coordinating Council. In addition, she participates in numerous industry and advisory groups and initiatives and has spoken at events all over the globe. Denise was certified as an EMT (B), and Firefighter I/II and Instructor I/II in the state of Virginia for twenty years and was an Adjunct Instructor at the Fire and Rescue Academy in Fairfax County, Virginia for ten years. She is a graduate of the Executive Leaders Program at the Naval Postgraduate School Center for Homeland Security.