Information Security Lead

2 months ago


Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom Nigel Wright Group Full time

The Opportunity

Fantastic opportunity for an experienced Information Security professional to take the lead on this national business's Information Security activities.

The company operates a fully flexible hybrid working policy where on average the person will be onsite 2 days per week.

The Role

Leading a small team, you will be responsible for Information Security governance, risk and compliance (GRC) activities, providing security governance on projects, testing security controls, risk management processes and working in partnership with the wider teams and stakeholders. Specifically you will:

- Provide ongoing development of all IT and Information Security processes and procedures
- Manage internal and external security audits
- Maintain the IT Risk Register, ensuring that all information security risks are documented and put in place mitigation plans to address these risks.
- Monitor security alerts in order to identify and prevent potential cyber security incidents (SIEM, IPS, AV).
- Manage Vulnerability Assessments and Penetration Tests and working with the IT Operations and Development teams, as well as 3rd parties, to remediate issues identified.
- Advise and assist in security Incidents, maintaining a log of activity, proactively communicating progress and ensuring that any customer or personal data loss is minimised. Where there is a risk with customer / personal data ensuring that agreed communication policies are adhered to.
- Maintain an awareness of all associated regulation and legislation.
- Sit on the Change Advisory Board (CAB) when required and will need to challenge any changes that may have an adverse impact on the Security of the company's infrastructure.

The Requirements

As an information security professional having worked in technical cyber and/or governance, risk or compliance (GRC), you will possess broad technical IT experience and have the ability to develop, document and disseminate policies and procedures through training. With the ability to develop, document and disseminate policies and procedures through training and written communication, you will also have a meticulous and tenacious approach to the enforcement of Information Security.

You will be experienced in working with security frameworks (ISO27001, Cyber Essentials, NIST, PCI DSS), data protection and regulatory compliance and be abreast of development of Information Security technologies and services that will enable you to advise on the implementation of these.

Any certifications as well as the desire to manage staff would be beneficial. Most importantly you will be hands on and possess a collaborative, meticulous and tenacious approach to the enforcement of Information Security.



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