Cybersecurity Third Party Senior Analyst
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Regular or Temporary:
RegularLanguage Fluency: English (Required)
Work Shift:
1st shift (United States of America)Please review the following job description:
In this role, you will be responsible for evaluating and managing risks introduced by supplier connectivity, including:- Vendor cloud integrations
- VPN and network access
- Application-to-application connections
- API and data exchange pathways
The role focuses on technical risk assessment rather than just policy compliance, analyzing how vendors connect, what they can access, and what business risk that introduces. The analyst also drives process improvements, develops new risk attribution methods, and refines governance for vendor access and connectivity.
In addition, role will be part of the continuous monitoring team focusing on security risks introduced by third-party suppliers, SaaS platforms, and publicly exposed assets. This role will develop threat models, detection strategies, and monitoring capabilities to identify and reduce external and supply-chain related threats impacting the organization.
This is a fully on-site position based in Atlanta, GA. Teammates are expected to be in the office five days a week
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
Following is a summary of the essential functions for this job. Other duties may be performed, both major and minor, which are not mentioned below. Specific activities may change from time to time.
1. Technical Risk Assessment of Vendor Connectivity
Evaluate security risks for VPN access, cloud integrations, API connections, and SaaS apps.
Assess authentication, authorization, network segmentation, and trust boundaries.
Identify excessive access, weak authentication, insecure patterns, and single points of failure.
Maintain consistent classification of high-risk integrations and critical vendor access.
2. Line of Business (LOB) Request Review
Review and approve/deny new vendor connection requests and modifications.
Partner with business and engineering teams to understand use cases, recommend safer patterns, and propose compensating controls.
Advise Procurement, Vendor Risk, Application, and Cloud teams on technical risks.
Translate technical findings into business risk statements and remediation actions.
Support contractual security requirements and risk acceptance documentation.
3. Process Improvement & Method Development
Refine vendor risk processes to move beyond questionnaires and annual reviews.
Provide risk-based guidance rather than binary approvals.
Introduce architecture-based risk reviews and threat-model-informed assessments.
Define standard secure integration patterns, risk thresholds, and escalation criteria.
4. Control Validation & Monitoring Alignment
Validate network, IAM, and monitoring controls for vendor connections.
Partner with SOC and Detection Engineering to ensure high-risk connections are monitored.
Coordinate with third party risk management, incident response, and infrastructure teams to validate threats, contain incidents, and recommend remediation steps.
Monitor external threat intelligence and vendor security events to assess potential organizational impact.
Identify and document abuse cases and attack paths involving external parties and publicly exposed assets.
Translate technical findings into business risk and remediation recommendations.
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