• Zero-Trust Security:

• Develop and execute a comprehensive zero-trust security strategy to protect our digital infrastructure, data, and assets.

• Lead the design and implementation of zero-trust principles, ensuring access controls, network segmentation, and identity verification are integrated into all systems and processes.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure continuous monitoring, anomaly detection, and data protection.

• Leadership & Culture Development:

• Develop relationships cross-functionally to understand business priorities and barriers, and work together to create plans that can be successfully executed.

• Foster a culture of cybersecurity awareness and best practices across the organization.

• Provide leadership and mentorship to the cybersecurity team, promoting professional growth and a commitment to excellence.

• Champion cybersecurity initiatives at all levels of the company, advocating for security as a core business value.

• Incident Response Management:

• Enhance and maintain an incident response plan, ensuring rapid and effective responses to security incidents.

• Coordinate with internal and external stakeholders to investigate, contain, and remediate security breaches.

• Conduct post-incident analysis to identify vulnerabilities and improve incident response procedures.

• Risk Assessment and Mitigation:

• Identify potential security risks and vulnerabilities within the organization.

• Conduct regular risk assessments, including threat modeling and vulnerability assessments.

• Develop and implement risk mitigation strategies, ensuring compliance with industry standards and regulations.

• Customer-Facing and Team Management:

• Interact with customers to understand their security requirements and provide assurance on our security posture.

• Manage and lead a customer-facing cybersecurity team, ensuring exceptional service and client satisfaction.

• Security Architecture Design in the Cloud and Data Centers:

• Assist and direct the design and implementation of secure cloud and data center architectures.

• Ensure that all security measures are integrated into cloud-based and on-premises systems.

• Collaborate with IT and development teams to align security with business goals.

• Project Management:

• Plan, execute, and oversee cybersecurity projects, ensuring they are completed on time and within budget.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and stakeholders to achieve project goals.

• Ability to work alongside team members and roll-up sleeves as part of project management.

• Security Governance and Compliance:

• Enforce compliance with relevant regulations and standards in collaboration with the Compliance team.

• Vulnerability Management:

• Ensure best practice external attack surface management (EASM), threat intelligence, metrics, and vulnerability scanning are executed.

Required Qualifications

• A minimum of 10 years of progressive experience in cybersecurity, with at least 5 years in senior leadership roles.
• Demonstrated experience in platform and perimeter security, network architecture, cloud security, and product security design.
• Deep understanding of security frameworks, protocols, and best practices. Proficiency in security technologies, risk assessment, compliance standards, relevant regulations (e.g., NIST, ISO 27001).
• Strong ability to influence and work cross functionally to drive business initiatives.
• Strong understanding of current cybersecurity threats, trends, and best practices.
• Excellent team leadership and management skills with a track record of building and leading high-performing cybersecurity teams.
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills to engage with stakeholders at all levels of the organization.

Preferred Qualifications

• Relevant certifications such as CISSP, GIAC or CISM are strongly preferred.

• Travel required up to 10% of the time.
• Located and working from an office location.
• Occasional lifting and/or moving up to 10 pounds.
• Frequent repetitive hand and arm movements required to operate a computer.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision (working on a computer, etc.).
• Frequent sitting and/or standing.

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Vertafore is a drug-free workplace and conducts preemployment drug and background screenings.

The selected candidate must be legally authorized to work in the United States.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this job. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all the job responsibilities, duties, skill, or working conditions. In addition, this document does not create an employment contract, implied or otherwise, other than an "at will" relationship.

Vertafore strongly supports equal employment opportunity for all applicants regardless of race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, marital status, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by state or federal law.

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Vertafore is a Flexible First working environment which allows team members to work from home as often as you’d like, while using our offices as a place for collaboration, community, and teambuilding. There are times you may be asked to come into an office and/or travel for specific meetings for a specific business purpose and this varies by job responsibilities.