Head of Cyber Security Operations
- Employer
- Stanton House
- Location
- Reading, Berkshire
- Salary
- £90 to 120k
- Closing date
- 18 Jul 2019
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- Sector
- Engineering, IT, Security
- Job Role
- Digital Forensics, Intrusion Detection, Threat Management, Incident Response
- Job Type
- Permanent
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Stanton house’s Information Security Practice are currently partnered with a Global Brand Name who are looking for their first Cyber Defence Leader to own and spearhead a brand-new defence capability build. This role reports directly into their CISO and will be a great opportunity for somebody to manage and enhance on their existing capabilities; whilst developing a best practice threat defence capability for the firm.
Responsibilities:
- Develop a threat defence strategy and enhance their current capabilities.
- Lead and manage security operations across the group.
- Responsible for incident identification, assessment, quantification, reporting, communication, mitigation and monitoring.
- Develop processes to strengthen the current Security Operations Framework, review policies and highlight the challenges in managing SLAs.
- Exercise threat management, threat modelling, identify threat vectors and develop use cases for security monitoring.
- Deliver improvements to the internal incident reporting process.
- Responsible for team & vendor management, overall use of resources and initiation of corrective action where required for Security Operations Centre.
- Responsible for integration of logs in SIEM and the creation of reports, dashboards, metrics for SOC operations and presentation to senior management.
- Co-ordination with stakeholders, build and maintain positive working relationships with them.
- Implement an IT Security Services board in partnership with the head of IT operations to develop transparent security service performance reporting from the outsource provider and drive improvements.
- Develop crisis simulation exercises to meet regulatory requirements and to enhance the group-wide response capability.
- Build relationships with other organisations across the industry.
Key Skills:
- Solid experience in information security predominantly within an incident response team: CSIRT, CERT, CIRT or SOC team.
- Experience in managing outsourced security services and driving improvement.
- Developing or creating a cyber defence strategy . Experience in IPS/IDS and SIEM technologies or other security defence tools.
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