Career profile
Samir Sherif
Senior Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer, F5
- Role as of 23 January 2024, the date of the latest source
- 22 January 2024
As of January 2024, Samir Sherif is the Senior Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer of F5, appointed on January 22, 2024.
Career path
Sherif spent more than two decades at Citigroup, a tenure that included brand-name experience at General Electric and culminated in his role as Global Head of Application Security.
He went on to serve as Chief Information Security Officer at Imperva, where he scaled the security team and led development and deployment of a security architecture spanning SecOps, governance, risk and compliance, risk management, and adversarial simulation.
On October 31, 2022, Absolute Software announced Sherif's appointment as Chief Information Security Officer, a role in which he oversaw global security, including cloud security, threat management, penetration testing, risk and compliance, and security operations, while also leading the company's Customer Zero program.
F5 announced Sherif's appointment as Senior Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer on January 22, 2024.
Role at F5
In the role, Sherif leads F5's enterprise cybersecurity strategy and security culture, works to evolve the company's security capabilities and resilience, and oversees cybersecurity standards and programs across F5's products and services.
He has also been positioned to communicate the value of F5's security offerings to customers and to the broader industry.
Describing his priorities on taking the role, Sherif said, "As the new Chief Information Security Officer at F5, my mission is to harness our leadership in multi-cloud application security to further strengthen our enterprise cybersecurity initiatives."
F5 describes itself as a multi-cloud application services and security company that partners with large organizations to secure and optimize applications and APIs across on-premises, cloud, and edge environments.
