Full-Time Senior Cyber Risk Consultant

Your CareerThe Senior Consultant, Cyber Risk Management Advisory 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 ImpactAssist 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%).

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.

The TeamUnit 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.

Compensation DisclosureThe compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications, experience, and work location. For candidates who receive an offer at the posted level, the starting base salary (for non-sales roles) or base salary + commission target (for sales/commissioned roles) is expected to be between $128,000 - $176,000/YR. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here.

Our Commitment We’re problem solvers that take risks and challenge cybersecurity’s status quo. It’s simple: we can’t accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating, together.

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