Principal Specialist Cyber Security - Midrand, South Africa - Adcorp Holdings
Description
Qualification and Experience
- Degree or a relevant tertiary qualification in Information technology and Minimum of 8 years of experience in cyber security role where you meet business deliverables.
- At least 8 years' experience in cyber governance, risk, controls, and compliance management in a technology environment
- 8 years of experience in IT Audit and Assurance management in a cyber or technology environment
- Knowledge of common information technology management and compliance frameworks such as ISO/IEC 27001, SOC 2, SOX, ITIL, COBIT, and NIST.
- Knowledge of legal, regulatory and privacy requirements, such as personally identifiable information (PII) Protection and Payment Card Industry (PCI)/Data Security Standard.
- High level understanding and knowledge of Cloud Risk, Compliance and Assurance
- Proven experience managing and operating multiple security programs, projects, and initiatives and related security tooling
- An ability to think strategically and drive change
- A deep understanding of Tech Security risks and mitigating solutions
- A diverse security background with knowledge in several areas including layered security architecture; internet protocols; firewalls; VPN technologies, IDS/IPS, network access control and network segmentation, antimalware and spam technologies; risk and vulnerability assessments, and compliance
- Security concepts related to DNS, routing, authentication, VPN, proxy services and DDOS mitigation technologies
- Windows, UNIX and Linux operating systems
- Web Application Security and Encryption
- Strong organizational skills and an entrepreneurial drive with a history of recruiting and developing highperforming teams
- Ability to build and manage highly motivated and innovated technical and extended team
- Ability to work under time and resource pressure
- An ability and desire to communicate and work with a broad set of stakeholders
- A customerfocused, responsive, and transparent attitude
- Grasping of technical concepts rapidly and the ability to articulate these concepts to technical and nontechnical audiences
- Skilled in communicating with all levels of management
Roles and Responsibilities
- Support and assist with the development and management of the 3to5year cyber security strategy across the company
- Achieve and maintain and target cyber security maturity level for the company
- Build relevant business cases for key initiatives and existing planned cyber programmers.
- Support the design, develop and implement a security programmer for the company
- No or per target Internal Audit findings related to the company for cyber security
- Ensure a cyber security incident response practice is in place across the company
- Promote awareness of security policies, training, and the governance strategy amongst all levels of the company to ensure sound security governance is reflected across the entity
- Actively manage risks on the Cyber Risk Register from intake to resolution
- Communicate risk assessment findings with key stakeholders to develop and monitor risk remediation plans
- Conduct regular compliance assessments with the business to ensure that current and emerging risks are being monitored and managed
- Proactive control design and implementation guidance provided to the business
- Process and control compliance monitoring and reporting
- Tracking and monitoring of audit remediation action implementation
- Design of status reports as well as insight reporting as and when required by management
- Lead reporting development with the use of automation and reporting tools to generate cyber risk metrics, i.e. KPI's, KRI's
- To provide management with assurance covering controls across the business environments that there are adequately designed and operating effectively
- To support management during audits as well as implement and track management audit actions to closure
- Provide management with status update reports as well as insight reporting across all the companies departments
Job Reference:
TCN01825
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