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The Information Protection Associate 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 . You will work with development teams to ensure they are using the appropriate application security tooling correctly through their SSDLC . Balance multiple project priorities appropriately. Work with the Cigna Information Protection team as required to support reviews, product implementations and security audits. Support the Management team (Regional Information Security Officer and Senior Manager) on dashboard reporting, coordination of incident responses, risk assessments and CIP led initiatives. Job Description: Infrastructure / Application reviews: 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: Perform general walkthrough evaluations of new applications 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. Provide development teams with application security vulnerability validation and remediation guidance from various application security tooling (SAST, SCA, IAC, DAST, MAST, etc) Support the Management team (Regional Information Security Officer and Senior Manager): 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 Skills Needed: Health Insurance or Health Care Industry experience preferred 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 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 assessing and mitigating risk Experience with contracting and negotiations Travel required, approximately 10% Qualifications: BS degree or equivalent experience CISSP, CISA, CISM, CRISC or similar certifications preferred Broad high level knowledge, hands-on experience, and exposure to a wide range of IT subject areas, business, application security Strong written and spoken English skills Qualified candidates will typically have 8 to 11+ years of professional IT experience work experience, and 4 years in information security Experience with process and change management, reporting and incident handling. Demonstrated ability to communicate at high levels, both verbally and in reporting Excellent problem identification, solving and critical reasoning skills. Ability to work successfully with a minimum of supervision in a fast paced and sometimes pressured environment. Techno Functional role Cyber security Analysts SDLC must have At least 1+ yrs of working experience SAST, DAST, MAST, SCA: Application Security scanning Tools must have Check vulnerability assessments. Help Developers to check if the integration process is aligned with the results. Check if the team is using the right tools and review the results. Threat Model & Programming languages is good to have not mandate. Software Development Lifecycle
