Cybersecurity Specialist

Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 114,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

     

JOB DESCRIPTION:

We’re focused on helping people with diabetes manage their health with life-changing products that provide accurate data to drive better-informed decisions. We’re revolutionizing the way people monitor their glucose levels with our new sensing technology.

Working at Abbott

At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and family, be your true self and live a full life. You’ll also have access to:

• Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.

• Free medical coverage for employees* via the Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO

• An excellent retirement savings plan with high employer contribution

• Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program and FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree.

• A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries around the world and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.

• A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as the best place to work for diverse, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

THE OPPORTUNITY

This Cybersecurity Engineer position works remotely within the U.S.

What You’ll Work On

• Contribute to the development of a risk-based cyber security program that meets regulatory requirements and aligns with industry-leading information security practices.

• Perform threat identification and mitigation activities using industry-leading security controls and tool sets.

• Work with a variety of cross-functional teams to ensure compliance with laws, regulations, and policies

• Support Audit Readiness during external and internal Audit Activities

• Assess threats to the business and deploy countermeasures for those threats.

• Guide business units, application development teams, and third-party vendors to achieve program requirements while enabling the business.

• Apply technical knowledge to protect the Company against cyber threats (e.g., knowledge of firewalls, intrusion detection and prevention systems, data loss prevention solutions, endpoint protections, log aggregation technology and other leading-edge security technologies).

• Perform assessment of cyber security incidents to identify the root cause, respond, and recover the environment.

• Support management in the development of strategies, policies, and standards to protect company information and technology assets.

• Ensure compliance with business continuity management policies and processes in accordance with applicable regulatory requirements.

• Implement and maintain security controls.

• Assist with incident response as events are escalated, including triage, remediation, and documentation.

• Implements security improvements by assessing the current situation, evaluating trends, and anticipating requirements.

• Maintain quality service by following organization standards.

• Attend regular project and implementation meetings and serve as the security consultant to help guide secure practices.

• Keep up to date with the current and proposed security changes impacting regulatory, privacy, and security industry best practice guidance

QUALIFICATIONS 

• Bachelor's degree in Information Security, Computer Science, or related field or an equivalent combination of education and work experience.

• Minimum 2 years of expertise in valuing and implementing industry standards such as the ISO 27001/2, SOC 2, HITRUST, and FedRAMP Information Security standard and the ISO 22301 Business Continuity Standard. 

• Experience with implementation and operational use of GRC toolsets (Governance Risk and Compliance)

• Possess CISSP certification (or similar) and have knowledge of national