Head of Cyber Security

4 weeks ago


London, UK, United Kingdom Eames Consulting Full time

Head of Cyber Security

London (Hybrid)

£110,000



Key Responsibilities:

  • Develop the internal red and purple teaming capability ,ensuring a cadence of testing is developed to test security and business controls across a range of scenarios.
  • Ensure red and purple team testing is developed end to end – from scoping, scenario building, through to testing, remediation tracking and reporting.
  • Remain up to date with the latest threat information, maintaining an accurate and up to date knowledge
  • Work across the CISO team to develop realistic testing scenarios, ensuring they test security and business controls and seek out any security gaps.
  • Work with external vendors to ensure red and purple teaming operations are conducted in a cadence that tests controls on at least a quarterly basis.
  • Produce concise and accurate technical reports and executive summaries of testing activities in collaboration with external vendors supporting testing activities.
  • Ensure testing findings are reported to the CISO promptly for remediation discussion.
  • Track red and purple team remediations across the business, ensuring a weekly reporting cadence is produced for the CISO.
  • Develop a reporting cadence for pen testing that tracks remediation, reporting this to the CISO.
  • Work with external vendors to ensure internal applications are tested on an annual basis.
  • Ensure the internal pen testing capability support secure by design build.
  • Give testing updates/presentations to the CISO team to ensure their understanding of any security gaps and remediation efforts ongoing.


Required Skills and Profile:

  • 5+ years of Penetration and/or red teaming testing experience
  • Have a strong interest in red and purple teaming techniques and development.
  • Demonstrate an excellent knowledge of penetration testing skills at infrastructure and application layers with experience performing authorised tests on computer systems exposing weaknesses in security that potentially could be exploited.
  • Experience with penetration testing of applications and infrastructure testing.
  • Strong understanding of common security standards and regulatory compliance.
  • Strong knowledge of network protocols and packet analysis / manipulation tools.
  • Strong knowledge of preventative and detective controls (Active Directory, firewalls, IDS, IPS, anti-virus, etc).
  • Ability to do manual penetration testing/validation and not rely on automated scanners.
  • Industry relevant certifications are desired.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  • Experience of reporting to executive level.
  • Strong organisation skills and ability to work in a pressurised environment whilst working towards and achieving deadlines.



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