Senior Consultant, GRC, Proactive Services - Unit42

Company Description

At Palo Alto Networks®, everything starts and ends with our mission: Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life. We have the vision of a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. These aren’t easy goals to accomplish – but we’re not here for easy. We’re here for better. 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.

We’re changing the nature of work. Palo Alto Networks is evolving to meet the needs of our employees now and in the future through FLEXWORK, our approach to how we work. From benefits to learning, location to leadership, we’ve rethought and recreated every aspect of the employee experience at Palo Alto Networks.  And because it FLEXes around each individual employee based on their individual choices, employees are empowered to push boundaries and help us all evolve, together.

Job Description

Your Career as a Senior Consultant:

The Senior Consultant, GRC for Proactive Services is focused on assisting our Governance, Risk, and Compliance team across a comprehensive portfolio of clients. The individual will assess security risk across multiple frameworks and act as a key team member in client engagements. They will be the client’s advocate for cybersecurity risk management and will provide strong recommendations in this domain. 

Your Impact as a Senior Consultant:

• Assist Unit 42 Leadership in the development of Risk Management, Compliance, and Security standards within professional services.
• Deep industry knowledge of best practices within Governance Risk and Compliance and ability to provide recommendations to proactively improve our clients’ security posture.
• Act as a key member of our team, learning to lead audits, risk assessments, and other engagement-related duties in accordance with industry regulations, standards, and company policies and procedures for assurance and continuous improvement of controls.
• The ability to work across multiple frameworks and regulatory standards including, but not limited to, NIST CSF, ISO, GDPR, SOX, HIPPA. 
• Monitor progress, manage risk and ensure key stakeholders are kept informed of progress and expected outcomes while defining potential impacts and creating an effective mitigation strategy.
• Skilled at proactively identifying security risks and vulnerabilities while eliminating cybersecurity threats.
• Interact with prospects and clients by assisting with completing security questionnaires, assessments, and audits.
• Ensure controls meet legal, regulatory, privacy, policy, standards, and security requirements.
• Effectively write and communicate audit, assessment, or compliance engagement reports and provide recommendations to client management.
• Ability to perform travel requirements as needed to meet business demands (on average ~30%).

Qualifications

Your Experience

• 4+ years of experience performing information security and risk assessments based upon industry-accepted standards.
• Experience with GRC tools, technology, and implementation.
• Experience with Application Security Audits and Risk Scoring.
• Demonstrate a track record in strengthening existing and developing new client relationships.
• Knowledge of computer forensic tools, technologies, and methods.
• Identified ability to grow into a valuable contributor to the practice and, specifically
  • have an external presence via public speaking, conferences, and/or publications
  • have credibility, executive presence, and gravitas
  • be able to have a meaningful and rapid delivery contribution
  • have the potential and capacity to understand all aspects of the business and an excellent understanding of PANW products
  • be collaborative and able to build relationships internally, externally, and across all PANW functions, including the sales team
• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Security, Computer Science, Digital Forensics, Cyber Security or equivalent years of professional experience to meet job requirements and expectations.

Additional Information

The Team

Unit 42 Consulting is Palo Alto Network's security advisory team. Our vision is to create a more secure digital world by providing the highest quality incident response, risk management, and digital forensic services to clients of all sizes. Our team is composed of recognized experts and incident responders with deep technical expertise and experience in investigations, data breach response, digital forensics, and information security. With a highly successful track record of deliverin