Director of Security Operations

at Cengage Group in Boise, Idaho, United States

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What youll do here:

As the Director of Security Operations at Cengage, you will play a pivotal role in our ambitious Information Security department. You will lead an extraordinary team to successfully implement innovative security measures, focusing on security operations from an engineering, cloud development, AI security, and vulnerability management perspective. In this role, you will:

+ Develop and coordinate security protocols to ensure detailed operations.

+ Collaborate with the Incident Response team to identify, bring up and mitigate security threats.

+ Implement sophisticated security solutions powered by artificial intelligence.

+ Manage vulnerability assessments and remediation processes.

+ Lead a team of skilled engineers to drive outstanding security outcomes.

+ Coordinate with Cloud Operations and Development Operations to highlight security improvement areas and lead initiatives to improve cyber hygiene in these areas.

+ Coordinate standard processes for Artificial intelligence security and application across the business.

+ Perform proactive threat modeling and testing to highlight areas of security improvement across all functions based on Threat Actor TTPs and Mitre Attack Framework kill chains

Skills you will need here:

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