Principal Consultant SOC Proactive Services Unit 42
Principal Consultant SOC Proactive Services Unit 42
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Job Description
Your Career
The Principal Consultant SOC Advisory Proactive Services is a seniorlevel consulting position focused upon delivery oversight for consulting and advisory services across a comprehensive portfolio before during and after cyber security incidents and data breaches. The individual will provide expertlevel guidance on all areas of cybersecurity and cyber risk management to Unit 42 clients across a wide array of industries geographies and organizational structures. They will be the clients advocate for cybersecurity risk management and will provide strategic and technical leadership in this domain. They will also work directly with multiple customers and key stakeholders to drive the security priorities of the security operations management security operations center (SOC) staff and Information Security team.
Your Impact
- Split your time across commercial support client delivery team leadership individual mentoring and technical expertise and skills maintenance activities
- A trusted Advisor to develop SOC initiative roadmaps for clients to further secure their environments
- Assist Unit 42 Consulting leadership in developing the proactive cybersecurity and risk management service strategy and appropriate offerings for clients
- Cultivate and maintain relationships with key clientele to increase awareness of Unit 42s capabilities and provide ondemand expertise for client needs
- Assist clients in directing their information security strategy and aligns security programs with client business priorities
- Create enhance review and/or approve security policies standards controls and processes as warranted by each client engagement
- Identify appropriate toolsets and services to be implemented to identify detect and respond to potential threats with corresponding communication and action plans
- Review investigations after breaches or incidents including impact analysis and recommendations for avoiding similar vulnerabilities
- Evaluate manage and adjust security personnel and staffing levels to ensure proper knowledge of the everchanging industry landscape to defend against future threats
- Identification of risks creation of actionable plans to protect the business and scheduling periodic security audits
- Forecast and develop a budget as required for cyberrelated functions in collaboration with senior leadership
- Advise senior leadership and board of directors on cybersecurity risk and advocate for managing risk
- Provide handson expertlevel consulting services to clients Conduct and review security program risk assessments based on cybersecurity frameworks regulations and industry best practices
- Amplify Unit 42s presence and credibility in the marketplace through thought leadership including via speaking engagements articles whitepapers and media exposure
- Help advance the firms capabilities including by identifying new services building partnerships and/or ways to augment our current capabilities to better serve our clients
- Serve as a trusted security advisor for Unit 42s most strategic customers
Qualifications :
Your Experience
- 6 years experience as a seniorlevel team member having established a security vision strategy and program while anticipating future security and compliance challenges up to and including overseeing other seniors midlevel analyst/consultant teams
- 4 years of consulting experience in SOC security engineering SIEM administration and incident management and demonstrated success with serving large multinational organizations in designing and implementing an organizations cybersecurity program organizational structures and capabilities
- Possess a deep technical knowledge in Security Incident and Event Management (SIEM) platforms Security Orchestration and Response (SOAR) technologies Endpoint Protection and Response/Next Gen Protection and Response (EDR/XDR) tools Next GenFirewalls Threat Intelligence and Hunting platforms
- Ability to travel as needed to meet business demands (on average 30%)
- Strong presentation communication and presentation skills with verifiable industry experience in holding a CISO or vCISO role
- Expert level of knowledge of applicable laws compliance regulations and industry standards as it relates to privacy security and compliance Ability to provide discovery triage and remediation in addition to evaluation of threats
- Technical proficiency in a wide range of cyber risk management services including penetration testing vulnerability assessments and cybersecurity framework assessments among others
- Client services mindset and topnotch client management skills Experiencedbased understanding of clients needs and desired outcomes in cybersecurity and risk management engagements
- Public speaking experience demonstrated writing ability including technical reports business communication and thought leadership pieces
- Operates with a handson approach to service delivery with a bias towards collaboration and teamwork
- Must be resultsdriven and strategic
- Knowledge of Palo Alto Networks products (XDR XSOAR XSIAM) are a plus
- Cybersecurity industry certifications such as CISSP and/or CISM are a plus
- Bachelors Degree or equivalent military experience an advanced degree such as MS MBA or Juris Doctorate (JD) is a plus
- 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
Additional Information :
The Team
Unit 42 Consulting is Palo Alto Networks 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 missioncritical cybersecurity solutions we are experienced in working quickly to provide an effective incident response attack readiness and remediation plans with a focus on providing longterm support to improve our clients security posture.
Our Commitment
Were problem solvers that take risks and challenge cybersecuritys status quo. Its simple: we cant accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating together.
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All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
Remote Work :
Yes
Employment Type :
Fulltime
Employment Type
Remote
