Security Advisor - PCI Practice

CampusGuard, a Nelnet Company, provides information security services for campus-based organizations including higher education institutions, healthcare providers, city, county and state government agencies and hospitality markets. As a full-service information security firm, we leverage our knowledge combined with the industry standards for compliance and information security issues to provide our customers with world class information security & compliance services.

CampusGuard, a Nelnet company, provides cybersecurity and compliance services for campus-based organizations including higher education institutions, healthcare providers, state and local government agencies, utilities and hospitality markets. As a full-service firm, we leverage our knowledge combined with the industry standards for compliance and information security issues to provide our customers with world class information cybersecurity & compliance services.

The Security Advisor provides information security and compliance consulting services using accepted standards, frameworks, and best practices including but not limited to PCI DSS, NIST SPs 800-53 and 800-171, NIST CSF, and ISO 27001. Security Advisors assess and report on customers’ compliance with various rules, regulations, and standards such as PCI DSS, CMMC, GDPR, FERPA, HIPAA/HITECH, GLBA, and FCRA Red Flags. The Security Advisor will gather and analyze customer information, make remote and/or physical site visits, conduct interviews, make observations, take appropriate notes, perform gap analysis, review evidence and documentation, and complete reports on findings, with remediation recommendations included where necessary. Security Advisors provide ongoing consultation services to customers via recurring and ad-hoc meetings and email communications, and assist with periodic support activities with customers, such as tabletop exercises and facilitating risk assessments, to ensure continued compliance. The Security Advisor provides sales support in the form of conference attendance/presentations, collaborates with Customer Relationship Manager (CRM) partners, and performs other tasks as needed/assigned, including but not limited to: time entry, internal meetings, create/revise both internal- and customer-facing documents and tools, and attend training seminars/webinars.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

Security Advisors are responsible for assessing and reporting on customer business and technical environments, operations/procedures, administration of infrastructure (from network border to endpoints and everything in-between), and overall compliance programs, as measured against relevant industry standards. The PCI Practice Security Advisor will focus primarily on PCI DSS assessments and compliance (including Reports on Compliance), though work to support other service lines, including those within the Privacy Practice, can arise periodically. Customer support of general information security is a shared responsibility between the PCI and Privacy Practices.

Responsibilities of the PCI Practice Security Advisor include, but are not limited to the following:

• Consult both onsite and remotely with customers to collect, review, and analyze data related to current institutional policies, business practices and procedures, network infrastructure, IT system configurations and physical security as they relate to multiple compliance requirements (primarily PCI DSS).

• Performing gap analysis of sampled merchant environments and overall compliance program/centralized controls.

• Provide in-person or remote orientation sessions to customer personnel.

• Review requirements with third-party service providers as necessary to clarify roles and help the customers achieve information security and compliance objectives.

• Make recommendations for remediation steps required to achieve information security and compliance objectives.

• Upon requests from ongoing customers, the Security Advisor may review customer-prepared industry reports (such as a PCI Self-Assessment Questionnaire) and provide feedback/guidance to ensure accurate reporting, or in some cases assist the customer with the preparation of required industry-standard reporting obligations.

• This is a remote work position.Candidate must be able to work in a home office environment with minimal supervision.

• Ability to travel required (potentially up to 50%).

• Other duties as assigned.

Security Advisors use standardized procedures and methods to assess the security and monitor the on-going compliance of each customer:

• Perform gap assessments through interviews, observations, evidence review, and physical/remote assessments to evaluate customer networks, infrastructur