Senior Consultant, GRC, Proactive Services (Unit 42) - Remote

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.

Who We Are

We take our mission of protecting the digital way of life seriously. We are relentless in protecting our customers and we believe that the unique ideas of every member of our team contributes to our collective success. Our values were crowdsourced by employees and are brought to life through each of us everyday - from disruptive innovation and collaboration, to execution. From showing up for each other with integrity to creating an environment where we all feel included.

As a member of our team, you will be shaping the future of cybersecurity. We work fast, value ongoing learning, and we respect each employee as a unique individual. Knowing we all have different needs, our development and personal wellbeing programs are designed to give you choice in how you are supported. This includes our FLEXBenefits wellbeing spending account with over 1,000 eligible items selected by employees, our mental and financial health resources, and our personalized learning opportunities - just to name a few!

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.

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.

• Support Advisory engagements such as Tabletop Exercises, Cyber Risk Assessments, Incident Response Plan development, Ransomware Readiness Reviews & Breach Readiness Reviews

• 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

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