Matt Huff serves as Chief Information Officer and Chief Information Security Officer at Tanner LLC, where he leads the firm’s technology strategy and security posture. A veteran of the IT industry with over 25 years of experience, Matt has recently executed a strategic pivot to focus exclusively on the governance, architecture, and security of Agentic AI.

Unlike traditional CISOs who might view AI primarily as a generic threat vector to be blocked, Matt operates as a "Builder-CISO." He is actively advancing his technical expertise in AI, gaining deep insight into how autonomous agents function, reason, and hallucinate. This "hands-on" architectural knowledge allows him to bridge the widening gap between rapid AI innovation and necessary enterprise control.

Matt’s core philosophy centers on "AI Integrity": the discipline of ensuring that AI systems remain transparent, ethical, and auditable even as they become autonomous. He advocates for a shift from verifying "Human-in-the-Loop" workflows to auditing "AI-in-the-Loop" decision-making, specifically addressing the emerging risks of "Vibe Coding" (unmanaged AI-generated software) and "Shadow Agents" within the enterprise.

Matt holds several security certifications, including the recent AAISM from ISACA, and is actively developing frameworks to apply rigorous audit standards (including the NIST AI RMF) to the chaotic reality of generative systems. He is a vocal proponent of the idea that the future of security belongs not just to those who can defend the network, but to those who can govern the systems that code themselves.