Threat and Controls Assessment

3 - 6 years

5 - 8 Lacs

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Brief overview of the business areas
Global Cybersecurity is responsible for enabling businesses and functions to manage their information, technology and cybersecurity risks by ensuring these are well-understood, and that controls used the manage such events are defined, assessed and implemented appropriately. Cybersecurity deliver this via objective, independent, professional and specialized subject matter experts. The role forms part of the 1LoD in relation to risk management framework.
The Cybersecurity Assessment and Testing (CSAT) function, part of Global Cybersecurity, is accountable for Vulnerability Management, Secure Development, Threat and Controls Assessment (threat modelling) and Third Party Security Assessment. The function drives the identification, capture, assessment, testing and ultimately the remediation of security defects, gaps and vulnerabilities across HSBC s estate in concert with business and technology teams on premise, within the Cloud and resulting from 3 rd party engagements.

What you will be doing;
The Threat and Controls Assessment Senior Consultant role will work as part of a global team to perform Threat Modelling on HSBC services.
This role will report into the Threats and Controls Assessment Regional Lead, closely collaborating with peers across Penetration Testing; Secure Development, Third Party Security Assessment and Cybersecurity business and regional leads, enabling effective end-to-end vulnerability identification.
Key Responsibilities:
Independently identify and assess the potential security threats and vulnerabilities in systems, applications, and networks.
Work on complex architecture, systems, network to identify the potential security gaps and help HSBC bank to achieve expected security posture of the systems.
Perform effective threat and control assessments of services within our internal, external and cloud estate.
Liaise with Developers, Architects and other Technical Leads to understand the end to end service and identify where there are any control gaps.
Understand the Business requirements, evaluate potential products / solutions and provide technical recommendations.
Be "hands on" with technology and contribute to the design, development and the support of projects with security recommendations.
  • Identify threats across the IT estate; including applications, databases, network and other infrastructure components.
  • Engage with other Cybersecurity teams, senior management and members of the Business when confronted with potential security issues.
  • Work as Technical Lead and take ownership to improve the processes, procedures and h elp team to improve technically.
Stay up to date with industry new trends and best practices.
What you will bring to the role;
To be successful in this role you should have proven experience within the Technology sector with knowledge of the following skills:
Mindset
An inquisitive approach, always asking how to achieve goals in a smarter and more effective way
Positive and professional attitude, team player, flexible and adaptable, embraces change
Good Risk and Controls understanding
Knowledge and exposure of Risk and Control Management
Ability to understand and assess both threats, controls and vulnerabilities, articulating these to both technical and business stakeholders
Desirable to have one or more industry-recognised cybersecurity-related certifications including CISSP, CRISC, CISM or Cloud Security Certifications

Requirements


Strong Technical background
In-depth understanding of security concepts and principles
Proven experience with threat modelling and strong technical understanding and experience of assessing vulnerabilities and identifying weaknesses in diverse enterprise IT assets
  • Strong understanding of applications design and architecture
  • Knowledge and experience with network, host and application security practices
  • Good working knowledge of one or more of the Cloud Service Providers AWS, GCP or Azure
  • Strong understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) with a focus on security
Experience in continuous improvement and process optimisation.
Understanding of emerging technologies and corresponding security threats
Strong stakeholder management and communications skills
Experience of working in international and diverse environments
Experience in engaging with business, technology, regional and regulatory stakeholders
Ability to communicate to key stakeholders effectively translating technical gaps into business risk
Ability to complete tasks independently to a high quality standard
Self-motivated individual with strong analytical and problem solving skills
Experience within fast-moving, complex and demanding corporate environments and able to provide appropriate direction to the team whilst dealing with ambiguity and change
Interpersonal Skills
Influential, credible and persuasive, active listener, embraces HSBC Values, shows good judgement and demonstrates high level of communication skills in order to achieve effective stakeholder management

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