Principal Security Consultant & vCISO - Strategic Advisory Services

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.

This individual will develop and deliver strategies to enable clients to identify and address cyber risk posture, as well as align metric driven models for the clients to measure and prioritize initiatives.

Role and Responsibilities: 

• Engage and consult with clients and align with the organization, strategic initiatives and risk factors.
• Facilitate alignment with the client’s current Information Security Program and identify areas to mature the program.
• Evaluate the client’s readiness and make recommendations to improve their posture.
• Engage with the client to identify areas to improve resilience and modernize the existing Information Security Program.
• Understand the client’s business objectives and priorities. Document and socialize risk factors.
• Assist with alignment and messaging with key stakeholders regarding the current Information Security Program and facilitate preparation for meetings and/or presentation to the Board.
• Advise the client’s staff, business leaders, and representatives on relevant topics.
• Deliver successful consulting engagements across the Cybersecurity Program while maintaining a high degree of customer satisfaction.
• Develop GPS methodologies and deliverables to provide the Strategic Advisory.
• Consult and deliver information security risk metrics programs; assess existing metrics reporting programs, and help clients mature their risk reporting programs. This includes multiple reporting levels within a typical organization, inclusive of board risk reporting.
• Perform strategic risk assessments, including threat modeling techniques, attack tree analysis, and quantitative risk analysis.
• Consult and deliver security risk services to enable organizations with their merger and acquisitions (M&A) and divestiture business activities.
• Consult and deliver security services to enable organizations to evaluate their security investments and document their total cost of ownership and return on investment. Make recommendations for adjustments as required to help organizations transform their programs while prioritizing on the key initiatives to drive risk reduction.
• Acting as a senior leader, execute on security transformation programs engaging multiple peer GPS practice teams.

Experience and Education:

• Minimum 5 years of experience performing consulting services for clients of various verticals, including financial and insurance, retail, healthcare, service providers (SaaS, PaaS, etc.), manufacturing, critical infrastructure/energy, etc. Large multinational experience is preferred.
• Minimum of 7 years combined across consulting and private/public sector.
• Ideal candidate will have a minimum of 7 years direct cyber risk management experience within multiple verticals to include financial and healthcare.
• Strong understanding and working knowledge of risk management frameworks including NIST, ISO, COBIT, COSO, and others.
• Experience engaging with external regulatory agencies auditing cyber risk programs, including OCC, HHS-OCR and other Federal agencies, and international authorities.
• Strong understanding and working knowledge of security frameworks including, NIST CSF, ISO 27001, HiTrust, 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.
• Strong understanding and working knowledge of various risk assessment methodologies, using qualitative and quantitative risk analysis.
• Strong demonstrated experience leading the transformation and maturation of a security program within large organizations.
• Extensive experience developing information security documentation for organizations and mapping requirements to various compliance and security best practice frameworks.
• 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 pres