Herrin Advisory | Cybersecurity & Technology Leadership Advisory

Cybersecurity leadership advisory for executives, boards, and builders

Twenty-five years in the chair. No vendor quota. No hidden agenda.

Herrin Advisory is a boutique firm serving CISOs, CEOs, directors, and investors. I have built and run security and fraud programs for some of the world's largest enterprises and earned the bumps, bruises, and battle scars that come with it. Nobody has time to make every expensive mistake themselves. Clients hire the scars instead. We take on a small number of clients at a time because quality of attention is the product.

Services

Every engagement begins with a 30-minute discovery call. We assess fit, scope the work, and if Herrin Advisory is not the right answer, I will tell you, and usually tell you who is.

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Board & Executive Advisory

A practitioner voice for boards and executives navigating cybersecurity, AI risk, and technology governance. Formal advisory seats, decision support, and private intelligence briefings built on the analysis behind Global Race Condition, delivered one-time or as a quarterly program. Board seat capacity is limited; two seats currently available.

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Fractional CISO

Waitlisted · Next Opening July 2026

CISO-grade program ownership and board engagement for growth-stage companies, PE portfolio companies between CISOs, and firms preparing for a material event. Capacity is limited and currently waitlisted; the next slot opens in July 2026.

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Speaking & Events

Sixty-five keynotes and counting on cybersecurity strategy, AI, geopolitics, and the future of trust. Panel moderation, event hosting, executive roundtables, and week-long regional programs with your local team. No recycled decks.

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Founding-client terms are available for the first engagements in each service line, in exchange for reference rights.

Chuck Herrin

CEO and Managing Principal of Herrin Advisory. Twenty-five years as a cybersecurity practitioner and technology executive at AIG, Texas Capital Bank, Athene, and F5. CISSP, CCSP. Forbes Technology Council member. NACD.DC Certified Board Director.

AIG: Consumer Group CISO. Led security for $29 billion in businesses across 100 countries and the Federal Reserve remediation program that began in 2009.

Athene: Took the global security program from bottom 5% to top 1% of peer benchmarking worldwide and delivered Thomson Reuters' 2016 IPO of the Year.

Texas Capital Bank: Rebuilt the security and fraud programs and created the bank's first Fusion Center before Newsweek named it "Most Trusted Bank in America."

F5: Field CISO and the public face of F5 Security, supporting over 22,000 enterprises and critical infrastructure providers worldwide.

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