Cyber Assurance Consultant

Overview

Role: Cyber Security Assurance Specialist

Location: Preston

Clearance: Must hold current DV

Start Date: Candidates will be considered who are available in 2-3 months, so would suit someone coming out of a perm role.

Responsibilities

• Deliver assurance services to the business, EITS, IM&T Sector and Group Functions, covering CPE (Customer Premises Equipment) and cloud-based systems. Identification of risk and appropriate mitigation requirements, development & analysis of secure solutions (covering technical / physical / procedural / personnel controls) and assessment of compliance with internal and external standards and regulations
• Deliver documentation to demonstrate compliance to internal and external stakeholders
• Assessment and provision of control effectiveness in managing information security risk
• Provide security architecture / technical input into the development of secure solutions
• Support development of strategy and continual service improvement for the assurance function
• Act as a subject matter expert regarding assurance activities for the wider organisation
• Deliver assurance services to the business, EITS, IM&T Sector and Group Functions, covering CPE (Customer Premises Equipment) and cloud-based systems

Requirements

• In-depth knowledge of industry standard security policy, standards and good practice guidance and their application to a variety of IT solutions processing protectively marked information
• In-depth knowledge of threats, risks, vulnerabilities and risk mitigations strategies and techniques
• Knowledge of information security standards, such as HMG, ISO 27001/18, NIST 800 etc
• Knowledge of CompTIA (A+, Network+, Security+)/CCSK/ISO27001 Practitioner (Lead Auditor etc.) – essential in one or more certifications / or on path to complete
• Excellent negotiation and people skills for managing relationships with stakeholders and direct report

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