Director, Content Security

Company Description

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Job Description

Role Purpose

The Director, Content Security is a leadership position within the Intellectual Property Security & Technology team that will provide NBCUniversal’s Film, TV, Streaming, Sports and Consumer Products businesses with guidance and services to reduce the risk of creative content (e.g., full-length movie, trailers, scripts, images) leaking to the public or unauthorized individuals, during the content creation and distribution lifecycle. This position will lead a team of security engineers and analysts, to ensure that optimal best practices for securely handling creative content are acknowledged and followed at NBCUniversal business units and external partners. This work includes overseeing a robust program of risk assessments for entities handling content. This position will work closely with legal, film security, cybersecurity, and other stakeholders to address any content security incidents, including remediation of any discovered issues. The position will provide guidance on technical advancements to reduce the risk of content incidents.

Job Duties

• Lead a centralized Content Security practice supporting all NBCUniversal business units
  • Includes best practices, assessments, remediation, policies, awareness, incident management and technology expertise
• Content Security Best Practices
  • Manage a team of subject matter experts supplying technical guidance encompassing both on-prem and application/cloud environments
  • Engage with industry organizations and other internal stakeholders to review and update content handling best practices for content creation and distribution processes
• Risk Assessment program
  • Oversee a program to assess content security risk in internal workflows and at external vendors and partners, including assessments by NBCUniversal and by accredited assessors in the industry-wide Trusted Partner Network (TPN)
  • Manage communications with business units to identify content-handling vendors for inclusion in the program, create operational metrics to track status of vendors and their risk rating, and communicate status to business stakeholders
  • Oversee internal team and processes to review results and perform ad hoc assessments
  • Update internal risk ratings system as the industry and technology shifts to ensure that we are assigning appropriate risk levels, as needed
  • Ensure vendors are actively remediating any deficiencies and keep the business apprised of their progress
  • Coordinate with Cyber Security Global Risk team to ensure that all vendors have been properly assessed and documented
  • Manage relationships with third party consultancies and assessors, including contracts and statements of work to deliver risk assessments
  • Supply leadership to the TPN program, representing NBCUniversal
• Policy Management, Outreach and Education
  • Catalog existing content-handling policies across NBCUniversal business units and update as needed. Create policies in partnership with business units where there are gaps
  • Collaborate with Comcast and Sky to develop and deliver training materials and organize security awareness events, to create a cultu