Henrik Smith

CISO @Infoblox Ex-Amazon, Ex-AWS, Ex-Salesforce

Seattle, Washington, United States

About

Board trusted, global-scale CISO with 30 years leading security across cloud, hardware, government, and consumer technology. Advisor to Fortune 500 executives, venture founders, and emerging security companies in complex, high-growth environments. Known for deep technical credibility, pragmatic organizational leadership, and ability to translate board-level risk into measurable business impact where governance and execution drive strategy.

Experience

  • Chief Information Security Officer at Infoblox
    Jun 2026 - Present · 2 mos

    Lead our global security strategy, with a focus on strengthening cyber resilience, advancing risk management and supporting the secure growth of the business.

  • Advisor at Mitiga
    May 2026 - Present · 3 mos

    CISO Advisor

  • Amazon (1 yr 8 mos)
    • Head of Devices and Services Security - Director of Security Engineering Amazon
      Feb 2025 - Mar 2026 · 1 yr 2 mos

      Acting CISO for Amazon consumer devices ecosystem. Leading 150+ person org across 10+ product lines securing 300M+ devices and partnering with 14,000+ developers. Delivered effective OPEX/CAPEX reduction, improved risk prioritization, and leading in-house AI/ML security product development

    • Head of Device Hardware Security - Director of Security Engineering Amazon
      Aug 2024 - Feb 2025 · 7 mos

  • Salesforce (5 yrs 2 mos)
    • VP Security, Head of BISO, Risk Operations & Product Security Leader
      Aug 2021 - Aug 2024 · 3 yrs 1 mo

      Build and develop Salesforce BISO organization at Salesforce (50-60 reports, $10M+ budget). Established Risk Operations Center: discovered & eliminated magnitude of rogue cloud accounts (100% previously undetected), reduced detection false positives from 99%→<5%, monthly board-level reporting on enterprise risk.

    • BISO, Security Integration
      Jul 2019 - Aug 2021 · 2 yrs 2 mos

  • Amazon Web Services (5 yrs 1 mo)
    • Principal - Office of the CISO, AWS Security
      Mar 2018 - Jul 2019 · 1 yr 5 mos

      One of 3 founding members advising AWS CISO relations on enterprise security strategy. Guided Fortune 100 companies on security transformation. Released 5 OSS projects annually; helped shaped AWS security service roadmap. Established recurring and grew internal AWS Security Summit (20→450 attendees).

    • Principal - Security Assurance - AWS Security
      Jun 2017 - Mar 2018 · 10 mos

      Built product org for compliance automation at scale. Created tool framework targeted to automating 1,800+ compliance evidence points across frameworks (SOC 2, ISO, GDPR, FedRAMP), Drove GDPR enablement project AWS wide and with fortune 100 industry partners. Reduced manual audit burden and accelerated certifications for enterprises.

    • Security Specialist Solutions Architect
      Nov 2015 - Jun 2017 · 1 yr 8 mos

      Key trusted advisor to AWS's largest customers on security architecture, compliance transformation, and organizational challenges. Built global security technical community for sales. Established DevSecOps, container security, and security assurance practices.