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London, LONDON, United Kingdom
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Jun 14, 2022
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Engagement Manager/ Account Director (Cybersecurity Advisory) We’re hiring! Aon are currently recruiting an Engagement Manager / Account Director (VP) to join our Security Advisory team in London/ Virtual. The Proactive Advisory team is a trusted adviser to the world’s most sophisticated organisations to help them protect their most important assets and continually improve their approach to cyber risk. When our clients suffer a breach or cyber-attack, our incident responders act in real time to contain issues and crisis situations. Our team comprises a collection of bright minds in cybersecurity, with expertise in incident response, penetration testing/red teaming, malware decryption, decoding and reverse engineering, application, network and cloud security and security governance advisory. We are also Certified Information Systems Security Professionals, and Information Privacy Professionals. We are ISO 27001 certified across multiple service lines (proactive and reactive) in seven U.S. cities and the UK, where we have also obtained Cyber Essentials certification. Additionally, via our Security Testing team, we are certified to offer the industry leading CREST (the Council of Registered Ethical Security Testers), STAR (Simulated Target Attack and Response), and CBEST cybersecurity testing services. Aon Cyber Solutions can provide a global presence to our clients to address all their cybersecurity requirements. Our organization will enable you to stand out and operate on the frontlines as an innovative practitioner, allowing you to showcase performance excellence and drive success for our clients, the firm and yourself.
About Aon
Headquartered in London, Aon Plc is a leading global professional services firm providing a broad range of risk, retirement and health solutions. Our 50,000 colleagues in 120 countries empower results for clients by using proprietary data and analytics to deliver insights that reduce volatility and improve performance. Aon is an equal opportunities employer. Aon's recruitment and selection policy ensures the best possible skill mix of colleagues and the highest quality candidates are appointed using objective job-related criteria.
About the Role
The Engagement Manager will be part of a cross-functional security risk team that gathers technical and procedural information, deploys necessary tools to identify vulnerabilities or control weaknesses within IT infrastructure, analyses information derived from engagements to determine information security risks and provides remediation assistance. The responsibilities of this position include but are not limited to the following:
1. Building and leading a team of consultants to perform cyber security consulting engagements.
2. Assessing and investigating client IT security programs and environments via interviews and technical information analyses.
3. Understanding existing client processes and controls and associated risks with respect to electronic and non-electronic information security.
4. Developing client security programs by reviewing existing programs; conducting comprehensive reviews of threats; evaluating and analysing relevant data points.
5. Architect and design of security solutions (SIEM, IDS, etc.) for client environments.
6. Developing Information Security Plans and Policies, customized to client requirements and risk profile.
7. Developing incident response plans and procedures, and advise clients on steps to achieve incident response readiness (logging and monitoring configurations, triage and escalation procedures, wider stakeholder liaison, etc.)
8. Advising clients on the implications of GDPR and other data privacy matters from a security perspective.
9. Providing recommendations on IT solutions to help clients manage information security risk.
10. Assessing IT network and security architectures as they relate to managing identities and access privileges, delegated administration models, workflow and access control models.
11. Documenting results of security risk analyses and formally present to clients.
12. Formulating executive level recommendations related to Information Security strategy.
13. Understanding current regulatory environment and related implications to security management compliance.
14. Enhancing team competence by answering technical and procedural questions for less experienced team members; teaching improved processes; mentoring team members.
15. Tracking emerging security practices and contribute to building internal processes.
Responsibility for working in accordance with the Aon UK Limited Risk Management Framework, and compliance with the Aon UK Limited policies, including participation in the management of risks (including completion of mandatory training) that may adversely affect the business, interests or reputation of any Group Company.
About you
As an Engagement Manager your skills and qualifications will ideally include:
1. Proven experience in progressively sophisticated roles in information security consulting coupled with demonstrable experience of security engineering and/or operations.
2. The position requires a strong, diverse technical background and truly exceptional oral and written communications skills.
3. The candidate must demonstrate proven success in working in a team as well as independently and exhibit follow-through to understand root causes of issues.
4. This position requires handling multiple engagements with overlapping deadlines. A demonstrated ability to write clear, coherent and precise reports on a multiplicity of complex technical issues is essential.
5. A collaborative approach is a must, as well as the ability to effectively communicate with a wide range of technical and non-technical personnel.
6. Personal flexibility and the ability to travel globally is required.
7. Additional language skills (e.g. in another European language besides English) would be highly desirable.
8. IT security certifications (CISSP, CISM, GIAC, OSCP) is an added advantage.
Salary and Benefits
This role offers a competitive salary and bonus, plus a comprehensive benefits package and 25 days holiday. Through our flexible benefits, you will also have the opportunity to choose additional benefits, including healthcare and additional holiday. We also offer tremendous potential with a growing worldwide organisation.
Our Colleague Experience
Every day, our colleagues make a difference, work with the best, own their potential, and value one another. Together, we share this one purpose: to empower economic and human possibility around the world. This unifying goal is at the heart of our identity, and it lives in everything we do. To learn more about our colleague experience, visit Aon Colleague Experience.
We’re happy to talk flexible working. If you need to flex your working pattern, Aon offers flexible and agile working policies and we’re happy to discuss options with you upon application.
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