Executive record
Justin Henkel
Career profile: Justin Henkel on CISO Spotlights ↗
Justin Henkel is Chief Information Security Officer at SolarWinds. The appointment was announced on June 17, 2026, per Business Wire.
1 tracked move on the Wire · Updated
Career timeline
Every move the record holds for Justin Henkel, newest first, with the earlier roles the announcements name.
The appointment
Announced June 17, 2026 · Source: Business Wire (company announcement) ↗ · Move record
SolarWinds announced the appointment of Justin Henkel as Chief Information Security Officer. The company said his background spans the intelligence community and financial services, with specialization in cyber threat intelligence, vulnerability management, and third-party and enterprise risk.
Few CISO seats carry more symbolic weight. SolarWinds remains the reference case for supply-chain compromise and for CISO personal liability after the SEC's action against the company and its former security chief — whoever holds this role operates under a level of external scrutiny most security leaders never experience.
According to the release, Henkel has more than two decades of experience across the private sector and military service. Henkel spent nearly five years at OneTrust, starting as Head of the CISO Center of Excellence and rising to Deputy CISO, the company says. At OneTrust, he built a portfolio focused on security operations, resilience and enterprise risk, according to the release. From 2001 to 2025, Henkel served in the United States Air Force as an intelligence officer, the company says. He has also held cybersecurity leadership roles focused on threat intelligence at iSIGHT Partners and CME Group, according to the release. Henkel holds a Master's in Intelligence Studies from the American Public University System, with a focus on military and political intelligence, the release says. From MIT Sloan School of Management, he also holds an Executive Certificate in Technology and Operations, the company says.
The company says its solutions give organizations worldwide a unified view of distributed, hybrid and modern network environments. The company says it engages with database administrators, DevOps and SecOps professionals, and IT service and operations professionals to understand the challenges they face. SolarWinds says it offers solutions for database management, application performance, IT service management and observability. Business Wire also lists a SolarWinds announcement launching Avior, an agentic AI system for mission-critical IT environments that is standalone and goal-oriented.
The company: SolarWinds
- Sector
- Technology
- Region
- North America
- Company record
- Who runs security at SolarWinds: 1 confirmed move on the record
- Vendor directory
- SolarWinds sells security products, filed under Network visibility and traffic brokering. What it sells
Appointed in the same period
Other security chiefs in Technology whose appointment was announced within 90 days of Justin Henkel's, nearest first (8 of 26). The Technology bench
Chaim Mazal, Chief Information Security Officer at GitLab
Paras Malhotra, Chief Information Security Officer at Starburst
Paul Adams, Chief Information Security Officer at Blue Mountain
Raymond Winder, Chief Information Security Officer at Sierra Orchestration
Robert Yox, Chief Information Security Officer at Lightedge
Michael Kipp, Chief Information Security Officer at ChurnZero
Philip Martin, Chief Information Security Officer at Uber
Uber Philip Martin, Chief Information Security Officer at Uber
Record facts
- Time in the seat
- 4 months since the appointment was announced (June 17, 2026), as of November 2026
- Moves on the record
- 1 confirmed move, each with its source
- On the record since
- August 1, 2026
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 Justin Henkel
- Who is the CISO of SolarWinds?
- Justin Henkel is Chief Information Security Officer at SolarWinds. The appointment was announced on June 17, 2026, per Business Wire.
- When did Justin Henkel become CISO of SolarWinds?
- The appointment was announced on June 17, 2026, per Business Wire. The record holds the announcement, not a start date.
Sources
- 1.Business Wire (company announcement) ↗: the appointment at SolarWinds, June 17, 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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