Executive record
Christie Terrill
Career profile: Christie Terrill on CISO Spotlights ↗
Christie Terrill is Chief Information Security Officer at Bishop Fox. The appointment was announced on September 19, 2023, per GlobeNewswire.
Before the appointment: Delivery Excellence Lead at Bishop Fox, per the same source.
The seat was verified again on October 25, 2026, per bishopfox.com.
1 tracked move on the Wire · Updated
Career timeline
Every move the record holds for Christie Terrill, newest first, with the earlier roles the announcements name.
· Appointment
Named Chief Information Security Officer at Bishop Fox
Source: GlobeNewswire (company announcement) ↗ · Move record
Before September 2023· Earlier role
Delivery Excellence Lead at Bishop Fox
Named in the announcement of the Bishop Fox appointment · Source: GlobeNewswire (company announcement) ↗
The appointment
Announced September 19, 2023 · Source: GlobeNewswire (company announcement) ↗ · Move record
Bishop Fox, an offensive security firm, announced the establishment of the company's first Chief Information Security Officer and Chief Technology Officer roles, naming Christie Terrill as CISO. Terrill is a 14-year veteran of the company who most recently led its Delivery Excellence function. She previously worked in technology consulting roles with Accenture and Ernst & Young.
According to the company's profile of her, Terrill leads the internal security strategy and program at Bishop Fox. Terrill will report to CEO Vinnie Liu, as will Symanski, according to the release.
Terrill's experience in security and technology services spans more than 20 years, the release says. According to the release, her Delivery Excellence work aimed at maintaining high quality in the company's services and maximizing client value. The release says her roles have always been client-facing, including delivering security strategy and embedded security program services and defining the scope of services. Before becoming CISO, Terrill took part in the multi-year process of completing two industry certifications for secure information management, according to the release.
According to the release, Bishop Fox recently completed ISO/IEC 27001 Type 2 certification and SOC 2 Type 2 Security Trust Services Criteria. The release says Bishop Fox's offensive security solutions range from red teaming, attack surface management and continuous penetration testing to cloud, application and product security assessments. Bishop Fox says it has worked with half of the Fortune 10 and more than 25% of the Fortune 100 to improve their security.
Bishop Fox says Terrill joined Tom Eston, its VP of Consulting & Cosmos, to lead a discussion on offensive security strategies for preventing a cyber incident and for the aftermath of a cyber attack.
The company: Bishop Fox
- Sector
- Cybersecurity Vendors
- Region
- North America
- Company record
- Who runs security at Bishop Fox: 1 confirmed move on the record
- Vendor directory
- Bishop Fox sells security products, filed under Penetration testing and red team services. What it sells
Appointed in the same period
Other security chiefs in Cybersecurity Vendors whose appointment was announced within 90 days of Christie Terrill's, nearest first. The Cybersecurity Vendors bench
Leon Rishniw, Founding Chief Information Security Officer at 1Fort
Mark Abbott, Chief Information Security Officer at Third Wave Innovations
Gary Perkins, Chief Information Security Officer at CISO Global
Joseph Bell, Chief Information Security Officer at Forcepoint G2CI
Kevin Paige, Chief Information Security Officer and Vice President of Product Strategy at Uptycs
Nichole Windholz, Chief Information Security Officer at Onspring
William Wetherill, Chief Information Security Officer at DefenseStorm
Record facts
- Time in the seat
- 3 years 1 month since the appointment was announced (September 19, 2023), as of November 2026
- Moves on the record
- 1 confirmed move, each with its source
- On the record since
- September 30, 2026
- Cybersecurity Vendors in 2026
- 25 security-leadership appointments announced in the sector on the record
How these are counted. Time in the seat: Counted in whole months from the announcement of the appointment, the date the record holds; announcements rarely give a start date.
Questions about Christie Terrill
- Who is the CISO of Bishop Fox?
- Christie Terrill is Chief Information Security Officer at Bishop Fox. The appointment was announced on September 19, 2023, per GlobeNewswire.
- When did Christie Terrill become CISO of Bishop Fox?
- The appointment was announced on September 19, 2023, per GlobeNewswire. The record holds the announcement, not a start date.
- What was Christie Terrill's role before this appointment?
- Before the appointment, Christie Terrill was Delivery Excellence Lead at Bishop Fox, according to the announcement (GlobeNewswire).
Sources
- 1.GlobeNewswire (company announcement) ↗: the appointment at Bishop Fox, September 19, 2023
- 2.CISO Spotlights career profile ↗: a fuller career profile on a sister site
This record begins with CISO Tribune's tracking in 2026.
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