Executive record
Henrik Smith
Career profile: Henrik Smith on CISO Spotlights ↗
Henrik Smith is Chief Information Security Officer at Infoblox. The appointment was announced on June 9, 2026, per GlobeNewswire.
1 tracked move on the Wire · Updated
Career timeline
Every move the record holds for Henrik Smith, newest first, with the earlier roles the announcements name.
The appointment
Announced June 9, 2026 · Source: GlobeNewswire (company announcement) ↗ · Move record
Infoblox, a platform for preemptive security and critical network services, announced the appointment of Henrik Smith as Chief Information Security Officer. The company described him as a former Amazon, Salesforce, and AWS security leader, brought in to strengthen security strategy and cyber resilience.
A hyperscaler-pedigree hire at a network-security vendor is a familiar pattern: security companies increasingly staff the CISO seat with operators who have run security at cloud scale, both for the operational muscle and for the credibility it lends in enterprise sales conversations.
According to the release, Smith will lead global security strategy at Infoblox, with a focus on cyber resilience, risk management and the secure growth of the business. The release says Smith joins Infoblox as organizations contend with AI-driven attacks, growing use of autonomous technologies and expanding digital infrastructure.
Smith has nearly 30 years of security leadership experience across risk management, enterprise security and cloud security, the release says. He comes to Infoblox from Amazon, where as head of Security for Devices and Services he led work to secure the consumer device ecosystem of Amazon. The release says Smith was previously vice president of security at Salesforce, leading security integration, risk remediation and security strategy across the enterprise. Earlier, according to the release, he held several leadership positions in AWS Security and was a founding member of the Security Assurance and Office of the CISO organizations.
He said he aims to further strengthen the security program of Infoblox while supporting its continued growth and innovation. Infoblox describes itself as a platform for preemptive security and hybrid, multi-cloud networking, and says it has more than 5,700 customers. According to the company, its customers include most Fortune 100 companies, and it integrates, automates and secures critical network services.
Infoblox Government Cloud achieved FedRAMP Moderate certification, according to a company release dated July 22, 2026.
The company: Infoblox
- Sector
- Cybersecurity Vendors
- Region
- North America
- Company record
- Who runs security at Infoblox: 1 confirmed move on the record
- Vendor directory
- Infoblox sells security products, filed under DNS security. What it sells
In their own words
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Elsewhere
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Appointed in the same period
Other security chiefs in Cybersecurity Vendors whose appointment was announced within 90 days of Henrik Smith's, nearest first (8 of 19). The Cybersecurity Vendors bench
Stephen Garcia, Chief Information Security Officer at BreachRx
Drew McCombs, Chief Technology Officer and Chief Information Security Officer at Cylerity
Jacob Berry, Chief Information Security Officer at Fable Security
Mark Carter, Chief Information Security Officer at Socure
Ali Waezzadah, Chief Information Security Officer at iCOUNTER
Roger Hale, Chief Information Security Officer at 1Kosmos
Paul Black, Chief Information Security Officer at Tanium
Record facts
- Time in the seat
- 5 months since the appointment was announced (June 9, 2026), as of November 2026
- Moves on the record
- 1 confirmed move, each with its source
- On the record since
- August 1, 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 Henrik Smith
- Who is the CISO of Infoblox?
- Henrik Smith is Chief Information Security Officer at Infoblox. The appointment was announced on June 9, 2026, per GlobeNewswire.
- When did Henrik Smith become CISO of Infoblox?
- The appointment was announced on June 9, 2026, per GlobeNewswire. The record holds the announcement, not a start date.
Sources
- 1.GlobeNewswire (company announcement) ↗: the appointment at Infoblox, June 9, 2026
- 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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