Cybersecurity Analyst

Divya | 224 369 2969

Sivanesan | 2243690756

Title: Cybersecurity Analyst

Location: Lake Forest, IL

Duration: 3 months

• This is a non-exempt role.
• The Cybersecurity Analyst contributes to the support of cybersecurity operations by designing, developing or recommending secure technical solutions, including policy, standards, applications, systems, architectures, and infrastructure that are operationally viable and efficient.
• Perform responsibilities to ensure that the appropriate application of security products and technologies are in place to protect the organization's systems and information and enable the achievement of the organization's objectives.
• Contribute to the design of cybersecurity toolsets to enable more automated discovery, remediation, and alerting of network and device vulnerabilities, as a means of improving the security posture.
• Perform analysis of emerging technologies and design and build architectures and solutions to enable secure implementation of new technologies.

• Contribute to the development of a risk-based cyber security program that meets regulatory requirements and aligns with industry-leading information security practices.
• Perform threat identification and mitigation activities using industry-leading security controls and tools sets.
• Support the advancement of the Company's cyber threat and vulnerability management program to ensure consistent identification, analysis, response, and monitoring of cyber security threats, events, and vulnerabilities.
• Assess threats to the business and deploy countermeasures for those threats.
• Guide business units, application development teams, and third-party vendors to achieve program requirements while enabling the business.
• Apply technical knowledge to protect the Company against cyber threats (e.g., knowledge of firewalls, intrusion detection and prevention systems, data loss prevention solutions, endpoint protections, log aggregation technology and other leading-edge security technologies).
• Participate in cross-team coordination to achieve defined security goals as well as meet technical requirements in support of detailed implementation plans for security projects.
• Contribute subject matter expertise on security projects to ensure the timely, on-budget, and effective implementation of cyber security improvements that are operationally supported with validation methods in place to measure effectiveness. Perform assessment of cyber security incidents to identify the root cause, respond, and recover the environment.
• Support management in the development of strategies, policies and standards to protect company information and technology assets.

• 2 to 4 years of experience is required.
• Possess expertise in valuing and implementing industry standards such as the ISO 27001/2, SOC 2, HITRUST and FedRAMP Information Security standard and the ISO 22301 Business Continuity Standard.
• Experience with implementation and operational use of GRC tool sets (Governance Risk and Compliance).
• Possesses CISSP certification (or similar) and be knowledge of national and international regulatory compliance and frameworks such as ISO, SOX, BASEL II, EU DPD, HIPAA, and PCI DSS.

• A Cybersecurity Analyst will be performing cybersecurity assessments (Based on NIST Framework).
• Perform responsibilities to ensure that the appropriate application of security products and technologies are in place to protect the organization's systems and information and enable the achievement of the organization's objectives.
• Development of a risk-based cyber security program that meets regulatory requirements and aligns with industry-leading information security practices
• Perform threat identification and mitigation activities using industry-leading security controls and toolsets.
• Support management in the development of strategies, policies, and standards to protect company information and technology assets
• Apply technical knowledge to protect the Company assets against cyber threats Education min. / Experience min.
• Masters in Cybersecurity ( 1st preference)
• Masters in Software (2nd Preference)
• Bachelors in cybersecurity (3rd Preference)

• Performing cybersecurity risk-based assessments.
• Hands-on past work experience on NIST Framework.
• CompTIA Security certification preferred.
• Risk-based cybersecurity Threat identification and mitigation activities.
• Strong Cybersecurity background
• Confirm interview preferences: First Round: Video call / Second Round: Onsite ( As required)