Modis has a direct hire opportunity for a Director of Information Security in Boston.
Description:
- Cross-department collaboration and communication to ensure appropriate security processes, procedures and tools are installed, monitored, and effectively operating and alerting.
- Strategy, planning, and operational excellence through continuous improvement and automation.
- Manages service levels, control effectiveness, control failure remediation, operational automation and oversight of information security team.
- Oversee the administration of all information security technology platforms, ensuring that technologies are optimally configured and maintained to provide maximum uptime and protection to the organizations' information systems.
- Play a primary role in the selection of new information security technologies.
- Conducts regular Security Incident Response Plan table top exercises.
- Oversee and directly participate in the installation, configuration, and monitoring of new information security technologies.
- Manage the IT security organization, consisting of direct reports and indirect reports including hiring, training, staff development, performance management and annual performance review.
- Liaise with corporate compliance, audit, legal and HR management teams as required, including overseeing annual audits and reporting as required.
- Provide technical leadership for all information security platforms. - Serve as the escalation point for technical issues related to information security platforms and events.
- Take the lead role in responding to and containing information security related incidents.
- Take a lead role in developing and managing information security programs, including, but not limited to; vulnerability management, DLP, CSIRT, and IAM.
- Engage proactively in risk management activities. - Assist in the development and knowledge transfer to IT team members, as well as other enterprise groups.
- Promote a culture of information security across all business units.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience.
- 7-10 + years of full-time experience leading and managing information security professionals.
- 7-10+ years of full-time experience in dedicated, technical information security roles.
- CISA, CISM, CISSP or similar certification required - In-depth knowledge of applications, systems, network and data security, telecommunications, security operations, and associated hardware, software and protocols.
- Background in information technology in an area such as; networking, programming, database management or systems administration.
- Strong knowledge of information security principles and practices. - Experience with incident response and analysis, preferably in a leadership role.
- Strong knowledge in the use of information security and networking tools such as; Tenable, Gigamon, Microsoft InTune & Defender, Mimecast, Cloudflare, Gemalto Safenet, QRadar
- Strong knowledge of IDS/IPS, firewalls, proxies and other network security technologies.
-Strong knowledge of host-based information security technologies. - Strong knowledge of Incident Analysis and response concepts and techniques.
- Strong knowledge of security implications involving a variety of technologies including but not limited to; Microsoft, Cloud Security, IAM, Cisco, and other market leaders in technology solutions, including mobile devices.
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