Justin Henkel

Justin Henkel is the chief information security officer of SolarWinds, a post the company announced he would hold starting in June 2026.

Career path

His record splits between uniformed service and private-sector security work totaling more than two decades.

He served as an intelligence officer in the United States Air Force from 2001 to 2025, a stretch the company's announcement places at the center of his background.

Parallel to that service, he built a specialty in cyber threat intelligence, holding security leadership positions at CME Group and iSIGHT Partners.

Immediately before SolarWinds, Henkel spent nearly five years at OneTrust, where he started as Head of the CISO Center of Excellence and was promoted to Deputy CISO, working on enterprise risk, resilience and security operations.

Specialization and education

SolarWinds describes his expertise as spanning the intelligence community, financial services and specialized work in cyber threat intelligence, vulnerability management, and third-party and enterprise risk.

He holds a master's degree in intelligence studies, with a focus on political and military intelligence, from the American Public University System, along with an executive certificate in technology and operations from the MIT Sloan School of Management.

In his own words

On joining SolarWinds, Henkel said: "I see a company that has shown both singular resilience and genuine innovation, and I believe together we'll set a new standard for operational resilience that helps our customers confidently accelerate in the age of AI."

The announcement is the only record found for this profile; it does not detail his day-to-day reporting line or give a start date beyond the announcement itself.