Dan L. Dodson serves as CEO of Fortified Health Security, a recognized leader in cybersecurity that is 100% focused on serving the healthcare market. Through Dan’s leadership, Fortified partners with healthcare organizations to effectively develop the best path forward for their security program based on their unique needs and challenges.
Previously, Dan served as Executive Vice President for Santa Rosa Consulting, a healthcare-focused IT consulting firm, where he led various business units including sales for the organization. He also served as Global Healthcare Strategy Lead for Dell Services (formally Perot Systems), where he was responsible for strategy, business planning and M&A initiatives for the company’s healthcare services business unit. Dan also held positions within other healthcare and insurance organizations including Covenant Health System, The Parker Group and Hooper Holmes.
Dan is a thought leader in healthcare cybersecurity and is a featured media source on a variety of topics including security best practices, data privacy strategies, as well as risk management, mitigation and certification. He was elected to the Association for Executives in Healthcare Information Security (AEHIS) Board of Trustees in 2022. In 2018, Dan was recognized as a rising healthcare leader under 40 by Becker’s Hospital Review and regularly speaks at industry-leading events and conferences including CHIME, HIMSS and HIT Summits. He served on the Southern Methodist University Cyber Security Advisory Board.
Dan earned an M.B.A. in Health Organization Management and a B.S. in Accounting and Finance from Texas Tech University.
04/05/2019
By: Dan Dodson
We recently released our bi-annual 2019 Horizon Report highlighting industry-wide data and insights to help healthcare organizations navigate the exceedingly ...
04/26/2018
By: Dan Dodson
Research shows us that security breaches can greatly impact a healthcare organization’s reputation. Unfortunately, healthcare leaders are stuck in the ...
04/23/2018
By: Dan Dodson
Are You Ready For FDA’s Medical Device Safety Action Plan? Last week, the FDA released its Medical Device Safety Action ...
03/19/2018
By: Dan Dodson
Security Insights and Takeways While a good bit of time at HIMSS is spent connecting with current and potential clients, ...
01/16/2018
By: Dan Dodson
2018 is here. While many of us are a couple of weeks into our New Year’s resolutions, some may have ...
10/12/2017
By: Dan Dodson
In 2004, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) declared the month of October National Cybersecurity Awareness Month. At this time: ...
04/20/2017
By: Dan Dodson
As I travel the country talking with health systems about their security programs, I can’t help but notice that lately ...
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