Dan Bowden is VP & CISO at Sentara Healthcare, a mid-Atlantic integrated health system. For 2021, his current areas of focus are: next generation identity governance; DevSecOps, IaC, and healthcare business solutions on blockchain. He has been with Sentara since 2016. In 2020, he was named among the Top 100 CISOs by Hot Topics.

Dan currently serves as an Executive Advisory Board Member for Tenable, the EC-Council International Advisory Board C\CISO – Americas, CyberMDX, RedShield Security Limited, Intruno and AEHiS.

Prior to his work at Sentara, Dan served as CISO at the University of Utah Health Care and the University of Utah. He worked there from 2007 to 2016.

Dan has also worked in banking, retail, and served in the United States Air Force from 1988 to 1995.

Dan has a master’s degree in the Administration of Security and Justice, with a Concentration on Global and Homeland Security. He has a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration.

Dan’s life priorities are faith, family, work and fitness.