Information Protection Advisor T500-14240

About Evernorth:
Evernorth Health Services, a division of The Cigna Group (NYSE: CI), creates pharmacy, care, and benefits solutions to improve health and increase vitality. We relentlessly innovate to make the prediction, prevention, and treatment of illness and disease more accessible to millions of people.

Job Description:
Information Protection Advisor
Job Objective:
The Information Protection Advisor is responsible for providing general technical, operational and review support to Cigna's Information Protection (CIP) Organization.
This role will support in enforcing standard information protection controls through infrastructure, application and third party security assessments. Balance multiple project priorities appropriately. Work with the Cigna Information Protection team as required to support reviews, product implementations and security audits.
Support the Regional Information Security Officer (RISO) on dashboard reporting, coordination of incident responses, risk assessments and CIP led initiatives. Assist the RISO with the overall direction and strategy of the Information Security function in collaboration with the CISO's leadership team.
Strategically you will be responsible for delivery of the 'last mile execution' of all Cigna Information Protection global Shared Services, developing and measuring capabilities whilst running subsequent risk mitigation Cyber Information Security Management programs.

Job Description:
Infrastructure / Application reviews:
Min. 10+ years of experience in Information Security / Cyber or related risk management experience.
Partners with the enterprise to implement standard security solutions and capabilities that are aligned with business, technology and threat drivers
Performs focused risks assessments of existing or new services and technologies, security architecture, identifies design gaps, risks, and recommends enhancements
Communicates risk assessment findings to information security "customers," or business partners. Explore risk mitigation controls
Serves as an information security expert and trusted advisor to partners in IT and the business
Evaluate compliance of operation processes with Information Protection policies and related government regulations
Identifies and implements appropriate controls to effectively manage information risks as needed
Identifies opportunities to improve risk posture, developing solutions for remediating or mitigating risks and assessing residual risk
Maintains strong working relationships with individuals and groups involved in managing information risks across the organization
Stays abreast of current and emerging security threats and designs security architectures to mitigate them.

Service Partner Security Assessment:
Plan and perform site reviews of physical and IT facilities, measuring actual conditions against submitted responses. Evaluate IT processes to ensure effective information protection is practiced. Produce site visit reports with improvement recommendation. Track improvement efforts until closure
Perform general walkthrough evaluations of new facilities and processes under consideration. Provide recommendation to business
Meet with vendors and employees to resolve or track compliance issues
Attend demonstrations of applications and prepare reports on potential for data leakage or infrastructure security issues
Review any regular security reports for abnormality
Work with supplier chain management on contracts to include security terms
Escalation to the fellow CIP team on security issues related to service partners

Support the Regional Information Security Officer:
Work with individual local security teams assigned to ensure security controls applied are compliant to CIP policies and standards
Work with the RISO on managing security incidents
Regular risk & activity reporting
Issue tracking with local security teams
Review and approval of application/infrastructure changes in terms of security
Coordinate CIP initiatives with other countries as required
Maintain strong working relationships with individuals and groups involved in managing information risks across the organization
Partner with the CIP and IT teams to implement standard security solutions and capabilities that are aligned with business, technology and threat drivers
Stay abreast of current and emerging security threats and security architectures to mitigate the threats
Recruit and develop talent that will drive the organization to higher performance

Skills Needed:
Ability to multitask and timely execute
Ability to grasp and understand complicated relationships
Proven Communication skills, able to write and verbally communicate effectively
Organizational courage to escalate and resolve risk issues
Support the end-to-end security technology posture, including end-point, network, mail, perimeter
Technical depth and working knowledge in networking, desktop, server, storage, software-defined-networking, virtualization and application domains
Effectively manage penetration testing (white box and black box) and elevate Red Team and Blue Team methodology for the region
Assists with optimizing and maintaining a 24x7 Global Security Operations Center (G-SOC) and Security Information Event Monitoring (SIEM)
Experience leading teams of over 3-5 employees
Maintain a constructive, team-oriented and customer-focused attitude at all times and in all settings
Recruit and develop talent that will drive the organization to higher performance
Stay abreast of technological advances and continuously research better ways to accomplish tasks, and integrate new security technologies
Proactively update skill set in support of technology integration and design
Flexible can adapt to changing organization changing business needs, technological advances and agile methodology
Demonstrates technical skills in infrastructure, application and third party security assessments.
Self-starter and shows empathy towards business requirements and able to influence changes to facilitate security
Experience with process and change management, reporting and incident handling
Experience with assessing and mitigating risk
Experience with contracting and negotiations
Health Insurance or Health Care Industry experience is a plus
Travel required, approximately 10%

Qualifications:
BS degree or equivalent experience
CISSP, CISA, CISM, CRISC or similar certifications required
Experience and working knowledge of HIPPA, PCI DSS & ISO 27001 certification is a plus
Broad high level knowledge, hands-on experience, and exposure to a wide range of IT subject areas, business, IT & physical controls
Qualified candidates will typically have 11 to 13+ years of professional IT experience work experience, with 3+ years of experience in a leadership type role, and 5 years in information security.
Experience leading teams of over 3-5 employees
Strong written and spoken English skills, Demonstrated ability to communicate at high levels, both verbally and in reporting
A manager who regularly brings and seeks new ideas, insights and knowledge, and drives the organization to implement new programs and solutions
The ability to think strategically as well as successfully implement tactical plans
Strong interpersonal, people development and management skills; motivating others with high expectations and clear performance expectations
Able to inspire, motivate and lead diverse teams and the organization. A strong manager who energizes and empowers the team.
Strong work ethic, high drive and ability to focus. High stamina. Shows optimism and determination when facing challenges
Ability to work successfully with a minimum of supervision in a fast paced and sometimes pressured environment

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