Sr Consultant, Cyber/Security

About the Role:

Gartner’s Consulting business is an extension of Gartner’s industry-leading IT Research. From CIOs, to leaders in business and government, we help Gartner clients across enterprises translate insights into transformational actions and achieve their mission-critical priorities. Leveraging the breadth of Gartner’s resources, Consulting is growing rapidly, with unlimited potential to continue expanding our client base.

We help the C-suite make the right decisions based on how technology can transform their businesses. In today’s world, a consulting firm that is “born digital”, (with the ability to directly leverage the full power of Gartner’s research and insights) has relevance to the most important strategic decisions any business will make.

We deliver value to clients in areas such as IT Strategy Consulting, Benchmarking, Analytics and Optimization. Typically, this helps Gartner’s clients to execute on their strategic priorities, across all sectors, including:

• Digital Growth and Transformation

• Applications, Infrastructure and Security Modernization

• Sourcing and Spent Optimization

What you’ll do:

Our Senior Consultants are part of a high-level project delivery team. You will be part of a team that will execute IT strategy projects while advising clients on how technology enables a wide range of business outcomes. Responsibilities include:

• Demonstrated understanding of the landscape of policies, processes, regulations and requirements across the U.S. Federal Cybersecurity

• Participate in cybersecurity, technology risk, and privacy assessments and audits against industry standards such as NIST, ISO, COBIT, GDPR, HIPAA, CCPA, CMMC, etc.

• Work with clients in mitigating and remediating cybersecurity, technology, and privacy risks

• Conduct cloud security reviews and network security assessments

• Plan, execute, direct and complete IT general controls, cybersecurity, and privacy assessments and technical IT audits

• Assist in creating strategies related to cybersecurity, technology risk, and privacy risk management

• Assist in designing test plans to evaluate control objectives and identify weaknesses in the information technology control environment

• Assist in creating cybersecurity, technology risk, and privacy solutions leveraging different industry frameworks and emerging technologies such as AI, analytics, etc.

• Assess emerging technologies such as blockchains, IoT, ML, AI for cybersecurity and privacy risks

• Leverage various technology risk privacy frameworks to be able to help implementation of these engagement starting with an assessment process

• Work with various proposal teams to develop proposals related to cybersecurity, technology risk, and privacy services

• Work with various partners and technology vendors to develop joint solutions

What you will need:

• Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Management Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, Finance, with proper technical focus and experience

• MS or MBA a plus

• CISSP, CISA, CIPP, CEH, GIAC, CISM, CRISC, MCSE, or equivalent certification a plus

• Hands-on experience with cloud architecture and security, security solutions including endpoint security, vulnerability management, network security technologies such as firewalls and IPS/IPS, content filtering, authentication systems, log management, and encryption a plus

• 2+ years of hands-on technical experience in IT audits; cybersecurity strategy, assessment, and design; vulnerability assessment, and/or privacy engagements

• Knowledge of IT policy and procedure development

• Knowledge and experience with security and privacy strategies and/or architecture preferred

• Experience with security architecture including PCI a plus

• Ability to multi-task and prioritize in a rapidly growing, fast-paced interactive, results-based team environment

• Must have excellent writing skills and the ability to communicate technical details in simple terms

• Excellent organizational skills and strong attention to detail

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

• Produce high-quality deliverables, reports, and presentations for client management and technology partners

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