Senior Director, IT Security
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What does it mean to be a Senior Director, IT Security at GLS?
The Senior Director, IT Security is responsible for the strategic leadership, governance, risk management, compliance, and operational execution of the enterprise information security program. This position provides oversight of cybersecurity operations, security architecture, technology risk management, regulatory compliance, third-party risk management, incident response, business continuity, disaster recovery, and emerging technology governance, including artificial intelligence initiatives. The role serves as a trusted advisor to executive leadership, regulators, auditors, and business stakeholders to ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of company information assets while enabling business growth, innovation, and regulatory compliance.
How will you drive value within the organization as a Senior Director, IT Security?
- Develop and maintain the enterprise cybersecurity strategy, operating model, control framework, and multi-year security roadmap aligned to business objectives.
- Establish and maintain enterprise security governance processes, standards, policies, risk assessments, control evaluations, and remediation programs.
- Provide cybersecurity governance reporting, risk metrics, annual program updates, and material cyber-risk reporting to executive leadership, board committees, regulators, auditors, and external stakeholders.
- Lead enterprise cybersecurity incident response, crisis management, investigations, post-incident remediation, and coordination of third-party security events.
- Oversee vulnerability management, threat detection, threat intelligence, security monitoring, and security operations capabilities.
- Direct implementation and management of security technologies including SIEM, EDR, DLP, IAM, PAM, cloud security, and related cybersecurity platforms.
- Serve as the primary security liaison for regulatory examinations, external audits, compliance assessments, and cybersecurity reviews, including evidence collection, artifact management, response coordination, and remediation tracking.
- Maintain compliance with applicable regulatory and industry frameworks including GLBA, NYDFS, FTC Safeguards Rule, PCI DSS, NIST CSF, CIS Controls, and other applicable requirements.
- Oversee third-party cybersecurity risk management, vendor security assessments, critical service-provider monitoring, and regulatory vendor-risk reporting.Establish governance, security, approval, monitoring, and risk management requirements for artificial intelligence, automation platforms, integrations, and emerging technologies.
- Partner with infrastructure, cloud, data, and application development teams to integrate security-by-design principles into architecture, DevSecOps, Infrastructure as Code, and technology modernization initiatives.
- Oversee cybersecurity awareness, policy communication, role-based security training, business continuity, disaster recovery, cy
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