Chief Information Security Officer

Network Health

$150K — $180K *
Healthcare
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in MIS, engineering, or a closely related field required.
  • Master's degree preferred.
  • 10 years of experience in senior IT roles required.
  • 10 years of experience and knowledge of the Health Plan business required.
  • 3+ years of experience in a leadership position.
  • CISA, CISM, or CISSP certification required or ability to obtain within one year.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the incident response team and collaborate with legal and compliance departments on incidents.
  • Develop and implement risk management strategies and policies to mitigate information security risks.
  • Govern and respond to risks affecting the organization's protected data and systems.
  • Identify security challenges in business operations and equip the organization with necessary resources to combat them.
  • Establish information security policies and align them with business objectives.
  • Provide senior technical leadership and evaluate the impact of future system developments on the enterprise.
  • Manage intrusion detection and security architectures, including cybersecurity controls and forensics technologies.
  • Enforce information security standards and procedures across the organization.
  • Conduct comprehensive threat and vulnerability assessments.
  • Oversee investigations of data security incidents and manage internal communications surrounding breaches.
  • Develop and promote a corporate security awareness program.

Benefits

  • Flexible workspace options including home office or hybrid model.
  • Opportunity to work in a reputable organization within the Health Plan business.
  • Professional development opportunities to obtain advanced security certifications.
Full Job Description
The Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) is a director level role responsible for establishing and maintaining the information security program to ensure that information assets and associated technology, applications, systems, infrastructure and processes are adequately protected in the digital ecosystem in which we operate. The CISO is responsible for identifying, evaluating and reporting on legal and regulatory, IT, and cybersecurity risk to information assets, while supporting and advancing business objectives. This role reports to the Chief Information Officer.

Location: Candidates must reside in the state of Wisconsin for consideration. This position is eligible to work at your home office (reliable internet is required), at our office in Brookfield or Menasha, or a combination of both in our hybrid workplace model.

Hours: 1.0 FTE, 40 hours per week, 8am-5pm Monday through Friday

Job Responsibilities:

  • A key leader of the incident response team (IRT). Collaborates with compliance and legal departments as appropriate regarding the incident
  • Define, develop, and implement risk management structures, strategies, and policies to reduce risk and to prevent and defend against information security attacks
  • Govern, evaluate, and respond to risks involving the organization's protected data and interests; assure all information systems concerning security policies are operating correctly and compliantly
  • Recognize the security challenges in the current and future state of business operations; provide the organization with the right tools, skills, resources, relationships, and capabilities to protect against growing information security risks
  • Determine information security policies and strategies; structure security initiatives with security programs and business objectives
  • Provide senior technical leadership to IT and the enterprise including being conversant with the future direction of systems, how that direction will impact the enterprise, and how future and current systems can be exploited for the benefit of the enterprise
  • Manages intrusion detection services (IDS) architectures including enterprise-scale firewall architectures, disruption investigation and forensics methods and technologies, secure messaging architectures, cyber security controls, and distributed computing platforms
  • Oversee the development, implementation, and enforcement of information security standards and procedures
  • Conduct threat and vulnerability assessments as appropriate within the organization
  • Oversee the investigation of data security breaches, including internal communications
  • Develop and champion the corporate security awareness program


Job Requirements:

  • Bachelor's degree in MIS, engineering or closely related field required.
  • Master's degree preferred
  • 10 years' experience in senior IT roles required
  • 10 years' experience and knowledge of the Health Plan business required
  • 3+ years' experience in a leadership position
  • CISA, CISM or CISSP or ability to obtain within one year in the position


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