Ed Gaudet
CEO and Founder
Censinet
Ed Gaudet is the CEO and Founder of Censinet. The company's product, Censinet RiskOps™, is an AI-first platform purpose-built for healthcare risk intelligence. Its community brings together more than 200 healthcare delivery organizations and more than 60,000 vendors to exchange best practices and manage risk alongside peers and industry experts. Censinet is an AHA Preferred Cybersecurity Provider. In 2025 it was named to TIME's list of the World's Top HealthTech Companies and recognized in the Gartner Market Guide for Third-Party Risk Management.
An entrepreneur, industry speaker, and recognized expert in cybersecurity and risk, Gaudet has helped build hundreds of products across 11 software technology start-ups, a career that includes two IPOs and multiple M&A transactions. His patents cover mobile and quorum-based authentication, secure content sharing, and the management of data objects in distributed systems. In 2025 he received the Baldrige Foundation Leadership Award for Cybersecurity. He is a Fellow of the American College of Health Data Management.
Gaudet chairs the Health AI Cybersecurity Work Group at the Coalition for Health AI (CHAI). He is an active member of the Health Sector Coordinating Council (HSCC), the coalition of more than 400 healthcare organizations that partners with government on cybersecurity, where he has led and served on several task groups and advised the Outreach and Awareness Task Group in 2025.
He has co-authored and contributed to published HSCC implementation guides and toolkits, including the Third-Party AI Risk and Supply Chain Transparency Guide, the Health Industry AI Cybersecurity Governance Framework Implementation Guide, the Supply Chain Risk Management guide, the Sector Mapping and Risk Toolkit (SMART), the Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning guide, and the 2023 update to Health Industry Cybersecurity Practices (HICP). Written with small to mid-sized healthcare organizations in mind, these resources have been accessed by more than 10,000 people.
He also contributed to ANSI/HSI 2800:2025, the first ANSI-accredited American National Standard for AI governance in healthcare operations, published by the Healthcare Standards Institute on December 17, 2025. The standard covers clinical, administrative, and operational AI across the full lifecycle, from development and procurement through deployment, monitoring, continuous improvement, and end-of-life, and it places board oversight and CEO accountability at the center of AI governance.
Through Censinet, Gaudet co-leads the Healthcare Cybersecurity Benchmarking Study with the American Hospital Association, Health-ISAC, The Scottsdale Institute, and HSCC. The study is the industry's first collaborative peer benchmark. It measures cyber preparedness, AI governance, and overall cyber maturity across the health sector against the NIST Cybersecurity Framework and the NIST AI Risk Management Framework.
A member of the Forbes Technology Council, Gaudet has published six articles on Forbes.com covering healthcare cybersecurity, AI governance, third-party risk management, and GRC. He is a featured speaker at HIMSS, ViVE, CHIME, AIMed, and KLAS DHIS. Since February 2023 he has hosted Risk Never Sleeps, a podcast highlighting the people protecting patient safety. Across more than 250 episodes, CIOs, CISOs, and risk leaders from top health systems have traced their personal and professional journeys and shared their vision for healthcare. The podcast is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major platforms.
Gaudet is a published poet whose work has appeared in leading literary journals, including JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association, and The Southwest Review. He and his wife have been married for 36 years and have three daughters. He is a lover of music and, in particular, the Grateful Dead.
An entrepreneur, industry speaker, and recognized expert in cybersecurity and risk, Gaudet has helped build hundreds of products across 11 software technology start-ups, a career that includes two IPOs and multiple M&A transactions. His patents cover mobile and quorum-based authentication, secure content sharing, and the management of data objects in distributed systems. In 2025 he received the Baldrige Foundation Leadership Award for Cybersecurity. He is a Fellow of the American College of Health Data Management.
Gaudet chairs the Health AI Cybersecurity Work Group at the Coalition for Health AI (CHAI). He is an active member of the Health Sector Coordinating Council (HSCC), the coalition of more than 400 healthcare organizations that partners with government on cybersecurity, where he has led and served on several task groups and advised the Outreach and Awareness Task Group in 2025.
He has co-authored and contributed to published HSCC implementation guides and toolkits, including the Third-Party AI Risk and Supply Chain Transparency Guide, the Health Industry AI Cybersecurity Governance Framework Implementation Guide, the Supply Chain Risk Management guide, the Sector Mapping and Risk Toolkit (SMART), the Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning guide, and the 2023 update to Health Industry Cybersecurity Practices (HICP). Written with small to mid-sized healthcare organizations in mind, these resources have been accessed by more than 10,000 people.
He also contributed to ANSI/HSI 2800:2025, the first ANSI-accredited American National Standard for AI governance in healthcare operations, published by the Healthcare Standards Institute on December 17, 2025. The standard covers clinical, administrative, and operational AI across the full lifecycle, from development and procurement through deployment, monitoring, continuous improvement, and end-of-life, and it places board oversight and CEO accountability at the center of AI governance.
Through Censinet, Gaudet co-leads the Healthcare Cybersecurity Benchmarking Study with the American Hospital Association, Health-ISAC, The Scottsdale Institute, and HSCC. The study is the industry's first collaborative peer benchmark. It measures cyber preparedness, AI governance, and overall cyber maturity across the health sector against the NIST Cybersecurity Framework and the NIST AI Risk Management Framework.
A member of the Forbes Technology Council, Gaudet has published six articles on Forbes.com covering healthcare cybersecurity, AI governance, third-party risk management, and GRC. He is a featured speaker at HIMSS, ViVE, CHIME, AIMed, and KLAS DHIS. Since February 2023 he has hosted Risk Never Sleeps, a podcast highlighting the people protecting patient safety. Across more than 250 episodes, CIOs, CISOs, and risk leaders from top health systems have traced their personal and professional journeys and shared their vision for healthcare. The podcast is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major platforms.
Gaudet is a published poet whose work has appeared in leading literary journals, including JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association, and The Southwest Review. He and his wife have been married for 36 years and have three daughters. He is a lover of music and, in particular, the Grateful Dead.
