Vice President, Deputy CISO

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The Vice President, Deputy Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) reports to the CISO and is responsible for day-to-day operations to support and augment the CISO’s overall responsibilities. The Deputy CISO is an advanced role supporting the entire cybersecurity program. This individual provides leadership, executive support, strategic and tactical guidance, and complete execution for a world-class cybersecurity program supporting global enterprise security initiatives. As directed by the CISO, the Deputy CISO supports and reports on strategic planning and execution of enterprise security systems, applications and operations. As a business enabler, the Deputy CISO ensures business decisions are not obstructed by cybersecurity but instead are made using sound security principles and supporting corporate security policies and plans. The Deputy CISO will lead an adaptable and secure business-supporting cybersecurity team, in addition to influencing and executing with technical team members such as software developers, system engineers, cybersecurity engineers and systems administrators. Preferably, the Deputy CISO will have a technical background with the ability to comprehend technologies, their purpose, and their security requirements, wherever they and their data reside. The Deputy CISO’s technical background should encompass understanding threats, risk mitigation and technical controls. 

Essential Functions:

• Serve as the CISO representative when the CISO is not available, including making decisions usually made by the CISO.
• Work closely with security leadership overseeing security operations, incident response, application security and infrastructure.
• Maintain an up-to-date level of knowledge relating to security threats, vulnerabilities and mitigations set forth to reduce the corporate attack surface.
• Be actively informed and engaged in daily security operations.
• Understand and be involved in disaster recovery and business continuity planning, testing and validation.
• Offer mentoring to security leadership as needed to support people-first leadership principles. 
• Enforce a strong security culture set forth by the CISO, ensuring uniformity across security leadership, business units and employees.
• Foster strong relationships with internal business units and external entities to maintain a strong network.
• Require security leadership and teams to consistently learn and share advanced knowledge and practices that promote excellence.
• Advise on enterprise-wide people, process and technology security recommendations.
• Ensure security projects are delivered on time and within budget.
• Implement a continuous vulnerability assessment and exposure analysis process and align technical teams to address a timeline for remediation and validation across applications and infrastructure.
• In conjunction with security leadership, define key performance indicators (KPIs) and metrics aligning with business initiatives and deliver to non-technical teams in terms that are readily comprehensible. 
• Provide motivation to security teams and employees to maximize rigorous system security controls. 
• Remove complexity and obstacles that hinder efficient security controls enterprise-wide.
• Build relationships with technical and compliance teams to deliver security-by-design controls that are incorporated into projects, architecture, infrastructure and applications.
• Work closely with risk, compliance, legal and audit teams.
• Verify security content training initiatives, as well as internal and external communication are conducted regularly.
• Oversee testing and validation of security controls across projects.
• Openly support the CISO, management team and executive leadership, even during tumultuous times. 
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Business, Management, Computer Science, Information Systems or a related field.

Experience:

• 8+ years of related security systems administration (preferable)
• 10+ years of cybersecurity management experience.

Licenses:

• Preferable, but not required: CISSP, CISM, CRISC, CISA 

Benefit Information:

ABM offers a comprehensive benefits package. For information about ABM’s benefits, visit ABM 2024 Employee Benefits | Staff & Management 

 

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