Summary
Shirley Erp is a seasoned cybersecurity leader and retired CISO with over a decade of focused experience safeguarding information across public, private, and higher-education sectors. She has led enterprise security programs for large organizations including the City of Austin, Texas HHSC, and the UT System, and has hands-on experience from red team penetration testing to mainframe systems programming. Certified in CISSP, CISA, PMP, CDPSE and ITIL, she blends compliance expertise across HIPAA, FERPA, PCI, NIST, ISO 27000 and DoD standards with practical program delivery and vendor/contract management. Known for translating complex regulatory requirements into pragmatic policies and secure architectures, she also brings unusual depth in legacy mainframe environments alongside modern cyber defense. Based in Austin, Texas, Shirley often speaks at state and national forums and has a track record of building resilient, privacy-forward security programs for mission-critical public services.
10 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Computer Science, B.S. Computer Science at University of Central Oklahoma
A.A.S. Computer Programming, A.A.S. Computer Programming at San Antonio College
Master of Science (MS) Technology Mgmt (Mgmt Info Systems), Master of Science (MS) Technology Mgmt (Mgmt Info Systems) at East Texas A&M University