Justin Shibayama Herring is an Executive Deputy Superintendent at the New York Department of Financial Services (DFS), where he leads the newly created Cybersecurity Division.  The Cybersecurity Division focuses on protecting consumers and industry from cyber threats, and is the first of its kind to be established at a banking or insurance regulator.  The Division oversees all aspects of DFS’s cybersecurity regulation, including enforcement, examinations, and guidance. 

Prior to joining DFS in 2019, Mr. Herring served for nine years as Assistant United States Attorney in the Districts of New Jersey and Maryland.  Most recently, he served as the Chief of the New Jersey office’s first Cybercrime Unit.  He led the prosecution of sophisticated cybercrimes targeting corporations, financial institutions, accounting firms and government agencies.  He also prosecuted and supervised white-collar cases involving investment fraud, stock manipulation, money laundering, insider trading, and corporate embezzlement.

Mr. Herring graduated from the University of Chicago Law School with Honors and received a B.A. from Swarthmore College.  After law school, he clerked for Chief Judge Danny J. Boggs on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.