Insider Threat Detection Consultant

Allstate Insurance Company

$80K — $190K *
US-AnywhereRemote in United States
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 2+ years in cybersecurity, insider threat, fraud, risk analytics, or detection engineering
  • Experience with security tools like SIEM, UEBA, DLP, EDR, or identity/access monitoring
  • Preferred exposure to insurance, financial services, fraud, or regulatory environments

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate across HR, Legal, Cybersecurity, and risk partners to analyze business processes
  • Translate operational risks and control gaps into threat detection signals
  • Examine user activity and system logs for anomalies indicating insider risks
  • Leverage domain knowledge to enhance detection relevance and accuracy
  • Align detection logic with operational risk through team partnerships
  • Assess current controls and propose enhancements for better detection
  • Refine detection methodologies based on feedback and changing processes
  • Document detection strategies to ensure transparency and consistency.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive technology setup provided including laptop and monitors
  • Monthly connectivity reimbursement for remote employees
  • Flexible work from home policy with specific workspace requirements
Full Job Description
Job Description
**For this opportunity, the business is flexible to hire at Senior Consultant, Lead Consultant, and Expert level depending on qualifications & interview evaluation.**

The Insider Threat Detection Consultant plays a key role in designing and scaling insider threat detection capabilities by translating business processes, user behavior, and existing control environments into actionable, data-driven insights. This role focuses on working across business units and risk functions to understand how the organization operates and where insider risk may exist.

This position partners closely with business stakeholders, risk partners, and technical teams to identify control gaps, behavioral patterns, and operational risks. The consultant leverages security tooling, behavioral analytics, and domain knowledge in insurance and financial services to design detection signals that are both operationally relevant and analytically sound.

The role requires strong analytical thinking, risk awareness, and technical capability to develop scalable detection use cases that improve visibility, enable proactive risk identification, and strengthen the organization's overall insider threat posture.

Key Responsibilities
  • Work across business units, HR, Legal, Cybersecurity, and risk partners to understand key processes, user behaviors, and existing control environments
  • Translate business workflows, operational risks, and control gaps into scalable insider threat detection signals and monitoring use cases
  • Analyze user activity, system logs, and behavioral data to identify anomalies and potential insider risk indicators
  • Incorporate domain knowledge (e.g., insurance operations, financial risk, fraud, or cybersecurity) into detection design to improve signal relevance and accuracy
  • Partner with detection, investigation, and engineering teams to ensure alignment between detection logic and real-world operational risk
  • Evaluate effectiveness of existing controls and monitoring capabilities; recommend enhancements to improve detection coverage and reduce gaps
  • Contribute to ongoing refinement of detection methodologies by incorporating investigative feedback, emerging risks, and evolving business processes
  • Document detection logic, methodologies, and assumptions to support transparency and consistency.

Key Qualifications
  • 2+ years of experience in cybersecurity, insider threat, fraud, risk analytics, or detection engineering
  • Experience working with security tools such as SIEM, UEBA, DLP, EDR, or identity/access monitoring platforms
  • Exposure to insurance, financial services, fraud, or regulatory environments is preferred


Supervisory Responsibilities
  • This job does not have supervisory duties.


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Skills
Analytical Thinking, Cross-Functional Collaboration, Cybersecurity Risk Assessment, Data Loss Prevention (DLP), Financial Services, Fraud Detection, Insider Threat Mitigation, Insurance Operations, IT Security Operations, Operational Risks, Penetration Testing, Risk Analytics, Root Cause Analysis (RCA), Security Access Control, Security Monitoring, Security Tools, SIEM Tools, Stakeholder Partnerships, Threat Assessment

Compensation
Compensation offered for this role is $80,000 - 190,000 annually and is based on experience and qualifications.

Allstate provides a comprehensive technology setup, including a laptop, monitors, headset, keyboard, and mouse. Employees eligible to work from home also receive a monthly connectivity reimbursement to help offset internet costs.

When working from home, you must have a dedicated, private workspace free from distractions, along with appropriate desk and seating. Reliable internet is required, with minimum speeds of 50 MB download and 5 MB upload.

To help create a more personal and engaging experience, we ask that you join with your camera on if your interview is virtual. Please also have a Valid Photo Identification available at the start of your interview. If you require any accommodations or have questions ahead of your interview please reach out to your recruiter.

Note: Internal candidates are only asked to join on video; a Valid Photo Identification is not needed for the interview.

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