Senior Consultant, GRC, Proactive Services - Unit42

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.

Job Description

Your Career

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. 

We expect office-based employees to be in the office four days per week, with one day working from where they choose. We believe being together facilitates casual conversations and those magic moments where we can work on issues and ideas informally. These moments build capability and deepen trusted relationships and allow our people to feel safe in taking risks and being disruptive. Like so many companies, we are working through the details and things could change …. but in general if a role is deemed office-based we want our teams to be together four days per week.

Your Impact

• 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, HIPAA
• 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

• 3+ years of work experience 
• 2+ years performing information security and risk assessments based upon industry-accepted standards
• Experience with GRC tools, technology, and implementation
• Experience with 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
• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Security, Computer Science, Digital Forensics, Cyber Security, Crisis Management or equivalent years of professional experience or equivalent military 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 delivering mission-critical cybersecurity solutions, we are experienced in working quickly to provide an effective incident r