Biography

Allison Henry is the Chief Information Security Officer at the University of California, Berkeley. 

After graduating from UC Berkeley with a Bachelor of Science in Integrative Biology in 1996, I started my Information Technology career as a system administrator at UC Santa Cruz.

I came to UC Berkeley in 2004 with the Communications and Network Services group, and pivoted to Information Security in 2006. In 2013 I assumed management of the Security Operations team, providing monitoring and incident management services for the complex and heterogeneous UC Berkeley campus computing environment. In that role I led initiatives to modernize security operations through custom built systems for automated alert processing and incident management. This allowed the Security Operations team to scale with the growth of the campus network. In 2018 I served as Associate CISO and provided oversight and direction for Information Security Assessments and Compliance activities, before assuming the role of Chief Information Security Officer in December of 2019.

In addition to information technology and security, I have a interest in the study of optimizing human performance, and outside work I enjoy endurance athletics and outdoor recreation of all kinds.