Consulting Director, SOC Advisory, Proactive Services (Unit 42)

Company Description

Our Mission

At Palo Alto Networks® everything starts and ends with our mission:

Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.

Our vision is a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. We are a company built on the foundation of challenging and disrupting the way things are done, and we’re looking for innovators who are as committed to shaping the future of cybersecurity as we are.

FLEXWORK is an employee-centric reimagining of how we work. We built FLEXWORK based on employee feedback – it is about flexibility, trust, and choice whenever possible. It’s been a journey of disruption that has yielded the best of our values. We offer as much flexibility as possible, and choices that enable you to be most productive, including benefits that meet your needs and learning opportunities that you feel passionate about.

Our Approach to Work

At Palo Alto Networks, we believe in the power of collaboration and value in-person interactions. This is why our employees generally work from the office three days per week, leaving two days for choice and flexibility to work where you feel most effective. This setup fosters casual conversations, problem-solving, and trusted relationships. While details may evolve, our goal is to create an environment where innovation thrives, with office-based teams coming together three days a week to collaborate and thrive, together!

Job Description

Your Career as a Consulting Director:

The Consulting Director, SOC Advisory, Proactive Services is a senior-level consulting position, focused upon delivery oversight for consulting and advisory services across a comprehensive portfolio, before, during and after cyber security incidents and data breaches. The individual will provide expert-level guidance on all areas of cybersecurity and cyber risk management to Unit 42 clients across a wide array of industries, geographies, and organizational structures.  They will be the client’s advocate for cybersecurity risk management and will provide strategic and technical leadership in this domain. They will also work directly with multiple customers and key stakeholders to drive the security priorities of the security operations management, security operations center (SOC) staff, and Information Security team.

Your Impact as a Consulting Director:

• Split your time across commercial support, client delivery, team leadership, individual mentoring, and technical expertise and skills maintenance activities.
• A trusted Advisor to develop SOC initiative roadmaps for clients to further secure their environments.
• Assist Unit 42 Consulting leadership in developing the proactive cybersecurity and risk management service strategy and appropriate offerings for clients.
• Cultivate and maintain relationships with key clientele to increase awareness of Unit 42s’’ capabilities and provide on-demand expertise for client needs. 
• Assist clients in directing their information security strategy and aligns security programs with client business priorities.  
• Create, enhance, review, and/or approve security policies, standards, controls, and processes as warranted by each client engagement.
• Identify appropriate tool-sets and services to be implemented to identify, detect, and respond to potential threats with corresponding communication and action plans.
• Review investigations after breaches or incidents, including impact analysis and recommendations for avoiding similar vulnerabilities.
• Evaluate, manage, and adjust security personnel and staffing levels to ensure proper knowledge of the ever-changing industry landscape to defend against future threats.
• Identification of risks, creation of actionable plans to protect the business, and scheduling periodic security audits.
• Forecast and develop a budget, as required, for cyber-related functions in collaboration with senior leadership.
• Advise senior leadership and board of directors on cybersecurity risk and advocate for managing risk.
• Provide hands-on, expert-level consulting services to clients.  Conduct and review security program risk assessments based on cybersecurity frameworks, regulations, and industry best practices.
• Amplify Unit 42s’ presence and credibility in the marketplace through thought leadership, including via speaking engagements, articles, whitepapers, and media exposure.
• Help advance the firm's capabilities, including by identifying new services, building partnerships, and/or ways to augment our current capabilities to better serve our clients.                             
• Serve as a trusted security advisor for Unit 42’s most strategic customers.

Qualifications

Your Experience

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