VP, Information Security Operations Detection & Response

About the job

Job Summary

The VP, Information Security Operations Detection & Response is the executive leader responsible for the identification of threats, vulnerabilities, security events and management of cyber incidents across the different environments within Information Technology. This Senior leader will properly convey to executive leadership the vision and strategy around proactive monitoring, threat identification, and remediation of potential security events. This position will champion development and acquisition of new technologies and tools within Information Security while improving the organization’s internal operations, security platforms, and technological direction. Advises top management on enhancements to existing security applications and implementation of new systems. Provides strategic guidance to corporate and field management on Information Security issues.

Major Duties And Responsibilities

• Lead a multi-function security operations team to proactively identify and respond to threats, vulnerabilities, and incidents across IT infrastructure – driving to resolution and incorporating lessons learned into practice.
• Design, maintain, and update the necessary information security processes and procedures that support a wide variety of business units across the organization.
• Provide strategic direction and program management for cyber threat intelligence, vulnerability management, cyber hunting, security operations, and incident response functions within Information Security organization.
• Assess the threat and vulnerability landscape to guide the risk management process for enterprise IT security risks while informing key stakeholders on strategic, operational, and tactical threats and likelihood/impacts against vulnerabilities to threats on an ongoing basis.
• Create and implement regular reporting mechanisms to identify key performance indicators in order to engage stakeholders across a wide geographic area as well as a broad range of career-levels up to C-Level/Board of Directors in order to inform and make decisions on latest trends, techniques, tactics of cyber adversaries and subsequent risks.
• Participate as needed in incident response actions and prepares action reports chronicling the incident and its remediation along with recommendations to prevent re-occurrence of this and similar incidents.
• Oversee a best-in-class ethical hacking program to proactively identify security risks in systems/applications/networks.
• Inform and build real-world scenarios for cyber table top exercises across enterprise.
• Able to recruit and cultivate cyber talent to effectively integrate cybersecurity into the business fabric of a large-scale enterprise.
• Create and successfully manage multi-million dollar budgets, key metrics, and projects to satisfaction of GVP and CIO targets. Approve related capital expenditures.
• Negotiate multi-million dollar contracts with third-party vendors.

Required Qualifications

Skills/Abilities and Knowledge

Ability to read, write, speak and understand English

• Competency to lead a growing security function with previous leadership experiences building, guiding, and growing threat intelligence programs, vulnerability management programs, incident response & hunting programs, and security operations/fusion centers.
• Ability to understand and affect positive change in an organization for effective risk management by providing awareness and understanding of cyber threats, cyber vulnerabilities, and security events or incidents affecting overall risk profile of the business.
• Expert knowledge of the cyber threat landscape – able to articulate and incorporate into program understanding of major threat categories, motivations, and intent of adversaries against corporate assets – strong influential skills help organization see threats around the proverbial corner.
• Exceptional communications skills in all facets of verbal, written, and interpersonal in order to carry executive presence, influence, and presentation.
• Ability to lead a multi-function department in a fast-pace, highly technical environment interacting with multiple stakeholders across all levels.
• Proven ability to distill complex technical information into clear, concise yet comprehensive communication material
• Ability to comfortably and successfully present ideas to various audiences from front line employees to company executives
• Skillfully synthesizes large quantities of complex information under pressure. Distills it to the most critical issues and draws accurate conclusions, taking into account a high degree of uncertainty.
• Required experience handling and relaying sensitive information to appropriate parties

Related Work Experience

Education

• BA/BS in Information Technology, Engineering, Computer Science, MIS, Cybersecurity or related field or equivalent work experience. Master’s Degree preferred. Certified in one or more industry recognized cybersecurity credentials including but not limited to CISSP, CISM, and SANS

Related Work Experience Number of Years

IT work experience 10+

Leadership experience 7+

Information Security experience 7+

Preferred Qualifications

Skills/Abilities and Knowledge

• 10+ Years experience in large sized organization leading multiple information security or IT domains in telecommunications, financial services, defense industrial base (DIB), or technology sectors.
• Strong conceptual and technical knowledge for modern IT environments to include server configuration/architecture, cloud, database management/configuration, networking protocols/designs, access management/access controls, coding languages/software development methodologies.
• Expert-level understanding in two or more cybersecurity/information security domains to include but not limited to access management, security operations, threat management/cyber threat intelligence, vulnerability management/vulnerability assessments, ethical hacking, penetration testing/red teaming, security engineering, SDLC, and encryption, etc.
• Previous experiences working for or extensively with law enforcement, government agencies, and/or information sharing centers.

WORKING CONDITIONS

Office environment

Some travel required

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