CISO, Essentia Health
Rohit Tandon is the Chief Information Security Officer at Essentia Health. Rohit has 20 years of information security industry experience in both the public and private sector. Rohit was the former State Chief Information Security Officer at the State of Minnesota. He has also worked for Mayo Clinic Rochester to build secure systems for Electronic Health Records and championed Medical Device security. In his career as an information security leader, he has developed enterprise-wide cyber security programs from establishing vision to directing resources to execute in multiple regulated environments. Rohit is appointed as a Private Sector Member on the Minnesota Cybersecurity Taskforce to develop a statewide cybersecurity plan for Minnesota, and an adjunct professor at Metropolitan State University where he enjoys sharing his knowledge to build the nation’s future cyber workforce.