Cybersecurity Specialist

**Job Description:**

We are a dynamic organization seeking an experienced IT Security Analyst to join our team. In this role, you will be responsible for developing and delivering security awareness training programs, creating security awareness materials, and measuring the effectiveness of these programs.

Key Responsibilities:

• Act as the primary liaison between our organization and external PCI DSS and ISO27001 assessors and auditors.
• Develop and deliver security awareness training programs on a quarterly, annual, and on-demand basis.
• Create and distribute security awareness materials, such as presentations, posters, and email alerts.
• Measure the effectiveness of security awareness programs through surveys, tests, and other metrics.
• Define and enforce security requirements for applications in development.
• Collaborate with development teams to integrate security best practices into the software development lifecycle.
• Monitor and ensure compliance with security requirements throughout the development process.
• Participate in the delivery of cybersecurity operations through vulnerability and threat identification, incident detection and response, forensic investigations, Patch and Vulnerability Management.
• Engage with infrastructure and applications teams in mitigation and remediation efforts.
• Maintain key metrics that are indicative of the security posture of the infrastructure.
• Keep abreast of threat intelligence feeds to stay abreast of industry reports and emerging threats that may affect us.
• Produce Executive Dashboard Security reporting showing actionable insights from IT Security monitoring tools.
• Engage with other IT units, where applicable, to establish and enforce security best practices, protection objectives, and process improvements.