Senior Security Consultant- GRC- Remote (Anywhere in the U.S.)

GuidePoint Security provides trusted cybersecurity expertise, solutions and services that help organizations make better decisions and minimize risk. By taking a three-tiered, holistic approach for evaluating security posture and ecosystems, GuidePoint enables some of the nation’s top organizations, such as Fortune 500 companies and U.S. government agencies, to identify threats, optimize resources and integrate best-fit solutions that mitigate risk.

Role and Responsibilities: 

• Deliver successful consulting engagements across multiple Governance and Risk offerings while maintaining a high degree of customer satisfaction.
• Perform maturity and risk assessments against NIST CSF, ISO 27001, and other best practice security frameworks.
• Establish strong relationships and trust with customers to understand customer’s business environments and requirements.
• Develop information security policies, standards, plans, procedures, and other documentation to support customer adopted frameworks and industry standards.
• Review and develop Security Incident Response Plans and Runbooks.
• Work with other GuidePoint Security practices as part of a cohesive cross-functional team.

Experience and Education:

• Minimum of 3 years of direct experience performing GRC-related consulting services for clients of various verticals, including financial and insurance, retail, healthcare, service providers (SaaS, PaaS, etc.), manufacturing, critical infrastructure/energy, etc.
• Minimum of 5 years of combined GRC experience across private/public sector, consulting and/or relevant education.
• Strong understanding and working knowledge of security frameworks including, NIST CSF, ISO 27K, and others.
• Strong understanding of all the functions within a security program, the ability to assess the maturity of a security program, and how to provide strategic recommendations and direction to senior leadership.
• Experience in reviewing and developing Security Incident Response Plans and Runbooks.
• Strong written and oral communication, which includes articulating thoughts and distilling complex problems into digestible information to be consumed by anyone from technical resources to the highest level of management; proven experience communicating clearly to technical levels up through C-Level and Board level.
• Strong written communication skills to aid in the creation of customer deliverables.
• Ability to provide presales support for Governance and Risk opportunities.
• Ability to contribute to practice and offering development.
• Remain current on industry developments and incorporate them into service delivery
• Strong ability to work independently and multi-task on multiple projects simultaneously.
• Personal drive and passion for growing themselves and the GRC Practice. 

Preferred Experience and Position Requirements:

• Demonstrated experience in assessing, developing, and implementing cybersecurity risk management programs that integrate with Enterprise Risk Management within an organization.
• Demonstrated experience with assessing, developing, and implementing data governance and protection programs, including conducting data discovery of data flows and inventories and evaluating the security and privacy controls that protect an organization’s sensitive data.
• Demonstrated understanding and working knowledge of various risk assessment methodologies, using qualitative and quantitative risk analysis.
• Demonstrated experience with driving cybersecurity assessments for M&As for client organizations.
• Demonstrated experience leading the maturation of a security program within large organizations.
• Publish content and/or perform conference speaking to demonstrate thought leadership.
• Standard industry certifications are preferred, such as CISSP, CISA, CISM, CRISC, CBCP, GIAC, etc.
• Publish content and/or perform conference speaking to demonstrate thought leadership
• Conference speaking experience. 

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Why GuidePoint?

GuidePoint Security is a rapidly growing, profitable, privately-held value added reseller that focuses exclusively on Information Security. Since its inception in 2011, GuidePoint has grown to over 750 employees, established strategic partnerships with leading security vendors, and serves as a trusted advisor to more than 3,000 Enterprise-Level customers.

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