Cyber Security Director / Associate Director

Position Summary :

You will be part of and establishing a team of cybersecurity professionals focused on providing advisory to the Firm’s clients across several cybersecurity offerings.

Your key responsibilities will include :

1.      Develop and maintain a team of cybersecurity professionals.

2.      Actively contribute to Firm initiatives and activities such as publishing thought leaderships, creating and delivering training courses.

3.      Support the Firm’s go-to-market strategies, respond to RFPs, maintain and expand relationships at existing clients.

4.      Keep up to date with new developments, solutions and technologies in cybersecurity domain.

5.      Provide clients with expert advice on their cybersecurity requirements.

6.      Ensuring expected work product quality standards are achieved and maintained.

7.      Support, guide and address queries of team members across projects.

8.      Keep track of project progress and proactively take remedial action and coordinate / manage client / stakeholder expectations.

9.      Extensive experience in :

a.      Application and Infrastructure Security (VA / PT)

b.      Business Continuity and IT Disaster Recovery planning and implementation.

c.      Designing and implementing enterprise architectures using frameworks such as TOGAF and SABSA.

d.      Designing and implementation of security policies, procedures, standards, and controls in line with regulation and / or current standards, ISO27001, ISO 22301, ISO 42001, NIST SP 800-53 / NIST, SANS etc.

e.      Designing and implementation of breach and major incident management practices

f.       Cloud architecture design and security review

g.      Security for emerging technologies such as AI, IoT etc.

10.  Good understanding of networking concepts and cybersecurity tools such as DLP, EDR / XDR, F / Ws, CASB etc.

11.  Understanding of deploying and operating Security Operations Center (SOC).

To excel in this role, you need :

1.      Good presentation, written and communication skills.

2.      Ability to initiate conversations in meetings, seminars or other events.

3.      Significant Experience in IT Risk and cybersecurity projects.

4.      Hands-on experience with cybersecurity tools.

5.      Project Management and Stakeholder management skills.

6.      Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite of applications.