Cyber Strategy Consultant - Emirati Nationals Only
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About Accenture : Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps organizations build their digital core, optimize operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services. We have 738,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries and provide capabilities across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Accenture Song.
Technology is one of four services that make up one Accenture – the others are Strategy and Consulting, Interactive and Operations. You will bring innovation, intelligence and industry experience together with the newest technologies to help clients innovate at scale and transform their businesses.
Responsibilities and Accountabilities
- Develop and maintain a cybersecurity strategy that aligns to the organization's business strategy.
- Effectively communicate financial aspects of cybersecurity related activities to senior management.
- Work with stakeholders to develop cybersecurity policies and associated documentation in alignment with the organization's cybersecurity strategy.
- Ensure that cybersecurity requirements for IT are aligned with the organization’s cybersecurity strategy.
- Develop and customize cyber threat landscapes.
- Promote and demonstrate the value of cybersecurity to stakeholders within an organization.
- Review the effectiveness of the organization's cybersecurity controls against its strategic goals.
- Advocate cybersecurity related topics with senior management, to ensure the organization's strategic goals include cybersecurity.
- Ensure that organizational cybersecurity strategy is effectively addressed by cybersecurity policies and related documents.
- Brief senior management on cybersecurity controls required to protect the organization.
- Ensure that protection and detection capabilities are aligned with the organization's cybersecurity strategy, policies and other related documentation.
- Periodically review cybersecurity strategy, policies and related documents to maintain compliance with applicable legislation and regulation.
- Obtain resources to develop and implement effective processes to meet strategic cybersecurity goals.
- Ensure that cybersecurity architecture design is aligned with the organization's cybersecurity strategy.
- Identify alternative cybersecurity strategies to address organizational security objective.
- Review the effectiveness of the organization's cybersecurity controls against its strategic goals.
- Advise on security requirements to be included in RFP process, project and change management processes.
- Ensure that acquired or developed systems and architectures are consistent with organization's cybersecurity architecture guidelines.
- Develop and address security architecture and systems security engineering requirements throughout the acquisition life cycle.
Skills and Qualifications
Excellent communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skillsConsulting, stakeholder engagement and relationship management skillsAbility to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environmentFlexibility to travelAbility to apply cybersecurity and privacy principles to organizational requirementsKnowledge of the organization's IT strategy and objectivesKnowledge in identifying the business critical systems and applicationsKnowledge of Enterprise Risk Management processesKnowledge of developing cyber threat landscapesAbility to understand and translate future cybersecurity considerations and industry trends into the cybersecurity strategyAbility to optimize systems to meet enterprise performance requirementsKnowledge of risk assessment, mitigation, and management methodsKnowledge of relevant cybersecurity and privacy principles and related legislative and regulatory requirementsKnowledge of cybersecurity-related threats and vulnerabilitiesKnowledge and understanding of new technologies and solutions from a cybersecurity perspectiveKnowledge of key security management conceptsPreferred Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in information security, cybersecurity or relevant field7+ years of experience in similar positionCertifications such as CISSP, CISM, TOGAF Foundation, SABSA SCF, or equivalentSeniority level
Mid-Senior levelEmployment type
Full-timeJob function
Project Management, General Business, and ManagementIndustries
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