Cyber Security Specialist

Robert Walters

I’m looking for a Cyber Security Specialist to join my client in the IT Service Management industry, they’re looking for someone who is willing to travel to London Central 5 days a week.

As the Subject Matter Expert (SME) for cyber security across the company responsible for implementing, maintaining and monitoring a range of technical and process security controls and leading continuous improvement in response to changing security threats and risk. The role requires a thorough understanding of the technologies that underpin our systems and broad, up to date knowledge of information security frameworks, pertinent regulation and legislation, vulnerability management, incident management and response, secure development techniques and approaches, Cyber Security engineering and operations and management and governance of Cyber risk and Cyber Security.

You’ll also be comfortable with ISO27001, PCI-DSS – and be driven to find suitable frameworks to ensure the business operates to the highest level of security compliance.

Key Responsibilities and Duties for a Cyber Security Specialist:

• Interpreting security guidance from external sources such as NCSC and NIST.
• Performing security risk assessments to identify and prioritise cyber security and cyber resilience risks and identifying appropriate controls and mitigation’s to manage those risks.
• Achieving and maintaining security accreditation or security assurance as required, including assessing the impact to security of all proposed changes.
• Scoping and managing testing external penetration test companies, ensuring remediation
• As a Cyber Security Specialist you should own the roadmap delivery across the company, reporting into the Information Security Director and advisory to the CIO
• Play a key role in leading the rollout of the groups cyber and data security governance policies, standards and frameworks
• Review/create, maintain and publish standardised group security policies, procedures and guidelines.
• Ensure that standardised best practice access control and password management policies are in place and are implemented across the group.
• Be the subject matter expert for cyber security tools utilised across the business. Including but not limited to threat prevention, vulnerability management, security information and event management.
• Lead and chair the groups cyber security working parities to ensure continual alignment of our cyber security roadmap.
• Own vulnerability management, including the implementation and ongoing management of internal and external tools, scanning, reporting and remediation plans.
• Support technology teams in the validation, risk assessment and remediation of identified security vulnerabilities.
• Develop, maintain and execute Information and Cyber Security training and awareness across the group including regular testing such as Phishing and reporting and communicating this to senior leadership.

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