Chief Information Security Officer

Responsibilities include :
• Develop, implement and monitor a strategic, comprehensive enterprise information security and risk management program.
• Lead strategic security planning with IT Operations, development teams, and users across the organization.
• Develop, communicate and ensure compliance with organizational security policies and standards, including ISO27001, ISO27018, SOC2 Type II and other certifications..
• Interact with clients, analysts, journalists, etc when required to present and answer questions regarding our information security policy and efforts.
• Help draft security related RFP responses.
• Create and manage information security and risk management awareness training programs for employees, contractors and approved system users.
• Work with developers and architects to ensure security is appropriately built into the development cycle.
• Coordinate the performance of internal and external network and systems vulnerability assessments and penetration tests .
• Audit vendor compliance with security requirements as needed.
• Coordinate organizational efforts in response to security events.
• Contribute to thought leadership in the areas of information security.
Ideal candidates will have:
• Well recognized IT-Security certification, such as a CISO course
• 10+ years of experience in the information security field and 5+ years of leadership in an information security role
• 3+ years experience in an organization with significant Internet presence
• Proven experience managing ISO27001 and SOC2 certification processes
• Proven experience with current IT technologies
• Programming skills – significant advantage
• Demonstrated understanding of technological trends and developments in the areas of information security, risk management, web architectures, and cloud computing
• Demonstrated skills of customer communication
• Demonstrated ability to frame security and risk-related concepts to both technical and nontechnical audiences
• Excellent written and oral English skills