IT Security Officer - Swindon, United Kingdom - English Heritage

English Heritage

Verified Company

Swindon, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

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Description

Are you passionate about safeguarding critical information and mitigating risks? We are seeking an experienced IT Security Officer to join our team.

With our commitment to excellence and a focus on comprehensive security measures, we offer an exciting opportunity to contribute to our organization's success while enhancing your professional growth.

Why Choose Us?

Comprehensive Risk Assessment:
Take the lead in reviewing information risk across all aspects of our organization. Assess physical, personnel, procedural, and technical controls to ensure their effectiveness. Your expertise will directly impact the robustness of our security measures.

Effective IT Security Controls:
Evaluate and advise on the effectiveness of our IT Security Controls, aligning them with organizational and service policies. Your insights will shape our risk management regime, ensuring optimal protection for our systems and data.

Business Continuity:
Play a crucial role in maintaining business continuity through monitoring and backup of security tools and information. Your contribution to our Business Continuity Measures (BCP) will ensure that we are prepared for any unforeseen incidents.

Proactive Security Measures:
Stay one step ahead by proactively identifying and reporting system security loopholes, infringements, and other issues. Your vigilance will contribute to the ongoing improvement of our security posture.

Continuous Learning:

Contribute to our culture of improvement by factoring lessons learned from events or incidents into our policies and processes.

Your expertise will enhance our ability to adapt and respond effectively to emerging threats.

Commitment to Compliance:
Ensure compliance with our commitments to stakeholders, partners, suppliers, and clients. Your attention to detail will reinforce our reputation as a trusted and responsible organization.

Operational Responsibility:
Assume operational responsibility in the absence of the IT Security Manager. Your reliability and expertise will help maintain seamless operations during their absence.

Join our team and become an instrumental part of our mission to protect and secure our information assets. Take your career to new heights in a collaborative and supportive environment that values your expertise and contributions.

The purpose of the role is to provide management and provision of expert technical advice on the selection, design, implementation and operation of information security controls and management strategies to maintain the confidentiality, integrity, availability, accountability and relevant compliance of information systems.

Working with the IT Security Manager to assist and lead on day-to-day operations, including monitoring and enforcement of security related controls, management of incidents and response to cyber incidents.

Be able to operate within the role with minimum supervision and proactively lead on investigations or projects.
Confident communicator with the ability to engage with stakeholders at all levels of the organisation to clearly and simply articulate risk and threat scenarios and the resulting business or personal impact.
Liaise and advise stakeholders, management, clients, administrators and users in a professional manner on compliance with policy and good practice that builds trust.
Assist in promoting a security aware culture that help English Heritage to mature and achieve a good standard of assurance.
Conduct and Lead on investigations, analysis and reviews following breaches of IT security (or 'near misses') and preparing recommendations for security improvements arising from such incidents.
Analyse and investigate system security events from various sources.
Be able to contribute to the development of the security policies and plans to protect English Heritage information, services and systems.
Conduct and lead on analysis on open source intelligence and other sources to correlate potential opportunities to facilitate early detection of threats or risks.
Be able to evaluate and implement intelligence information regarding new threats, risks, vulnerabilities and their likelihood, to update protection measures.
Be able to operate organisation security tools to undertake protective monitoring, forensics, vulnerability scanning, malware analysis and capture information from systems as part of IT Security activities.
Develop and evolve security toolset to produce metrics that can demonstrate Information Assurance compliance, through reports, dashboards and alerting
Assist in coordinating the English Heritage response team during technical security incidents
Lead on the management of protective monitoring measures and their implementation.
Lead and report on system weaknesses, including vulnerability assessment.

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