Emily Hurt

Deputy Chief Information Security Officer

The University of Texas at Austin/Information Security Office

Emily Hurt serves as the Deputy Chief Information Security Officer for the Information Security Office (ISO) the University of Texas at Austin. She’s been with UT since 2018 and with the UT ISO since 2020.

The UT ISO provides managed incident detection and response for over 1.5M endpoints from across UT System, numerous K-12s, TX Department of Information Resources and a number of other state agencies; they operate the Dorkbot web vulnerability detection service currently serving over 1,200 organizations across 6 continents (and 100 countries); and the team has developed and maintains a variety of security-related software, including Isora GRC (a governance, risk, and compliance tool) and Panopticon, an incident response collaboration and automation tool in use at scale for almost a decade.