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Director, Cyber Defense & Threat Management (US)

PointClickCare
Remote, USA, United StatesRemotefull_timeVerifiedPosted 22 Apr 2024

About the role

For more than 20 years, PointClickCare has been the backbone of senior care. We’ve amassed the richest senior care dataset making our market density untouchable and our connections to the healthcare ecosystem exponentially more powerful than those of any other platform. 
With Collective Medical & Audacious Inquiry, we’ve become the most expansive, full-continuum care collaboration network, offering care teams immediate, point-of-care access to deep, real-time insights at every stage of a patient’s journey.
For more information on PointClickCare, please connect with us on Glassdoor and LinkedIn.
As part of a Security Team supporting a market leading Software as a Service (SaaS) offering, the Director, Cyber Defense & Threat Management at PointClickCare will provide strong technical leadership and support for implementing, developing, and maintaining security solutions to safeguard cloud environments and corporate technology environments. The Director will act as a senior trusted security advisor and partner to corporate technology, product engineering, and cloud infrastructure teams, leveraging strong technical security acumen and proven ability to achieve consensus in a highly complex, fast-moving technology environment.  This is a newly envisioned position and will be responsible for developing a new integrated cyber fusion practice including the disciplines of Cyber Threat Intelligence, Attack Surface Reduction and Vulnerability Management, and serve as Incident Commander. 
Reporting to the Vice President, Information Security (Chief Information Security Officer), the Director will own our defensive cyber operations, including management of in-house staff, contractors and 24x7x365 MSSP managed service providers partners. The position is responsible for continuously enhancing tooling/monitoring/staff and outsourced relationships to monitor for and prevent security events, conduct threat intelligence/hunting activities, coordinate and lead responses to security incidents, and manage cyber security investigations.
The ideal candidate will be well versed in procedural/technical cyber security and responsible for providing strategic oversight and hands on technical guidance to the above functions and team members.   The Director will serve as Incident Commander and effectively manage multiple incidents, communicate with a cross functional set of stakeholders, and support lessons learned including establishing requirements around continuous strengthening of controls around detection and response.

As a Strategist, you will:

  • Proactively plan for cyber operations and defensive/assurance needs, including next generation security tools and automated detection, prevention and response.
  • Remain up to date with current attack methods and characteristics to identify threats and advise on prevention, mitigation and remediation.
  • Provide recommendation, input and as needed develop maintain, and publish best practice information security policies, standards and guidelines.

As an Effective Leader, you will:

  • Establish a new integrated cyber fusion practice including the disciplines of Cyber Threat Intelligence, Attack Surface Reduction and Vulnerability Management
  • Transform the team from reactive, to proactive and predictive threat hunting, recommending mitigations and countermeasures
  • Act as a hands-on leader, set vision and direction for the Cyber Defense and Threat Management (CDTM) teams as they strive to achieve technical excellence, operational rigor, while consistently aligned with PointClickCare strategic business goals
  • Effectively guide the team and coordinate with other departments during challenging times such as incident troubleshooting, mitigation, containment and response to security incidents and recovery
  • Collaborate with Corporate Technology Services, Legal, Hosting, Product Engineering Service Reliability Engineering (SRE) teams to drive continued operational maturity across our cyber security processes, platforms and tools overall information security and risk posture.
  • Play a lead role in identifying and reporting on areas of cyber risk resulting in situational awareness, oversight, and risk-informed recommendations to improve the security posture of PointClickCare

As an Operations Expert, you will:

  • Manage, monitor and operate infrastructure and network information security tools
  • Triage security events, coordinate incidents with Incident Management Team, Corporate Technology Services, Legal, Hosting (SaaS Operations) and Product Engineering/SRE teams and support the Incident Management process
  • Drive

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