Director, Cybersecurity Vulnerability Management

Company

Cox Communications, Inc.

Job Family Group

Information Technology

Job Profile

Director, Cybersecurity

Management Level

Director

Flexible Work Option

Hybrid - Ability to work remotely part of the week

Travel %

No

Work Shift

Day

Compensation

Compensation includes a base salary of $142,100.00 - $236,800.00. The base salary may vary within the anticipated base pay range based on factors such as the ultimate location of the position and the selected candidate’s knowledge, skills, and abilities. Position may be eligible for additional compensation that may include an incentive program.

Job Description

The Director of Vulnerability Management and Continuous Control Monitoring leads a team of cybersecurity professionals that provide continuous internal and external vulnerability scanning and reporting, continuous configuration monitoring in on-premise, multi-cloud, and customer network environments, and design and maintenance of a platform that continuously monitors and reports on the state of CCIs critical cyber controls.

The scope of this role is CCI wide and includes enterprise IT, product technologies and customer facing networks (critical infrastructure), and adjacent business units’ environments.  This leader directs the strategy and operational approach of vulnerability management, including identification and reporting of technical vulnerabilities and misconfigurations across infrastructure supported by application, server, database, network, and product teams.  Additionally, this leader will direct the strategy and day to day operations of the cybersecurity team’s continuous control monitoring platform for measurement of ongoing compliance with critical cyber controls across all technology environments.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES AND ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

Vulnerability Management

• Lead and mentor a team of cybersecurity professionals that:
  • Deliver continuous scanning, identification, and reporting of the external facing attack surface throughout on-premise and cloud-based environments across enterprise, product technologies and network.
  • Provide continuous scanning, identification, and reporting of vulnerabilities throughout on-premises and cloud-based environments across both enterprise and product technologies. 
  • Recommend, socialize, and gain consensus on minimum patching and vulnerability mitigation standards and policies across both enterprise, product and network technology teams and acquisitions.
  • When imminent threats or relevant zero-day vulnerabilities are identified, escalation of rapid vulnerability response efforts.
  • Monitor vulnerability mitigation progress and partner with teams to provide recommendations for efficient risk remediation or mitigation.
  • Provide regular reporting on the current state of vulnerabilities and configurations throughout the entire environment including acquisitions.
  • Partner with M&A teams to ensure rapid deployment of vulnerability scanning and related visibility tools to acquisitions.

Continuous Control Monitoring

• Define and execute the vision and strategy for our continuous control monitoring platform and data model that supports our overall critical cybersecurity objectives and priorities. 
• Lead and mentor a team of engineers who are responsible for developing, testing, and maintaining the continuous control monitoring platform and related data models that integrate data from various cybersecurity and technology sources to report on the current state of critical cyber controls.
• Partner with cybersecurity, enterprise, product, and network technology teams on the development of appropriate scoring algorithms and measurement criteria, including defining and setting policies where needed.   
• Collaborate with engineering and architecture leaders, other cybersecurity leaders, and broader CCI leaders to socialize security requirements for meta data or technical integrations necessary to provide relevant critical cyber control reporting to all layers of the organization.
• Design and build consumable and audience appropriate reporting of the state of critical cyber controls for consumption by technology owners, technology managers and directors, cybersecurity leaders, and senior technology and business leaders.

Common Responsibilities Across All Focus Areas

• Lead and coordinate large-scale information security projects, including implementation and delivery of infrastructure security scanning, correlation of new cybersecurity data sources and reporting, and workflow and orchestration solutions.
• Identify, propose, and influence