Information Security Consultant (Governance / Risk / Compliance) – Bradford
NEG - please apply regardless of expectations
Work Hours
9am - 5.30pm
Responsibilities
Information Security
Professional Services
Qualifications
MS Security Quals / DPA / GDPR / ISO
Skills
Information Security
Contact number
01274 920 304
Additional Benefits
Cycle to work
Region
West Yorkshire
Working with the Information Security team to provide advice and guidance on IT security and further develop IT policies and processes across a multi-region infrastructure consisting of 8000+ staff and 100+ sites.
As a member of the IT Security team, you will review all aspects of the IT environment and its components. This role shall be responsible for supporting Governance, Risk and Compliance activities. The successful candidate will be required to proactively improve and provide advice and guidance on information security matters.
Create and maintain policies within our Information Security Management System, to support business requirements and align with ISO 27001
Maintain a register of security controls, to identify compliance against security standards, including ISO 27001, NIST, COBIT etc
Develop and enhance security policies, processes, procedures and technical controls to strengthen security capabilities and resilience to cyber threats
Maintain and manage the IT Risk Register to ensure that IT risks are regularly reviewed, correctly identified, assessed, reported and mitigated in line with recommended best practices
Identify and raise awareness of security risks
Develop a register of regional regulatory privacy requirements and develop processes to monitor regional controls to ensure compliance
Perform daily, weekly, and monthly security checks, reconciliation and compliance checks and investigate exceptions
Complete client security requirement questionnaires and support the bidding process
Assist with security incident management and response activities
General day-to-day support on managing and responding to security alerts from systems and end users
Support the wider IT team to provide and share technical knowledge and security best practices
Test DR plans, processes and capabilities to ensure they work as designed, identifying gaps and lessons learnt and work with the business to drive continual development and enhancement
Technical Requirements
Have at least 13 years educational background
Excellent working knowledge of security and governance, risk and compliance within an enterprise environment
Hands-on experience of enterprise information security and standards including Cyber Essentials, ISO 27001, 27002 etc. Data Protection Act and the General Data Protection Regulation
Microsoft O365 Security solutions; Networking; Security operations; Vulnerability Management; Security Auditing
Experience of formal document creation, such as the creation of reports or procedures
Experience of carrying out risk reviews, technology audits or other similar work
Detailed knowledge of:
Threat Intelligence analysis and best practice
Security Incident Response processes, procedures, and best practices
Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity principles and testing methodologies Risk analysis and data management methodologies
Event and log analysis
Core Behavioural Skills:
Confident individual with the good interpersonal skills, able to deal with people at all levels and communicate to users in a clear, non-technical language
Team-player
Analytically minded, able to break down and understand information
Must be comfortable with working in a fast-moving, dynamic environment
Strongly customer-focused, used to providing support to demanding users
Good organisational skills, used to managing and prioritising own workload
Ability to report on progress, timescales, outstanding and completed activities
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