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Defence Digital – Cyber Security Risk Manager Lead
| Posting date: | 17 December 2024 |
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| Salary: | £44,590 per year, pro rata |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 16 January 2025 |
| Location: | SW1A 2HB |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | Ministry of Defence |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 382313 |
Summary
The Cyber Security Risk Manager Lead is responsible for assisting the Cyber Risk Management Assistant Head with the management and maintenance of the Defence Enterprise Cyber Risk portfolio.
This role will play an important part in the collation and management of Defence’s cyber risks, furthering the understanding of risks the Defence cyber community are carrying and enable their reduction.
Responsibilities
Responsibilities include:
Develop and maintain a wider understanding of cyber risks and capabilities, across Defence’s complex and challenging environments.
Identify possible gaps and issues, providing assessment and recommendations to inform key defence cyber and related security and digital programmes on how to mitigate these and understand how the resulting activity will help to reduce cyber risk.
Provide upward reporting and briefings, regarding cyber activity and resulting risk assessments, to enable seniors all the way up to the Defence Board to make informed investment decisions.
Working with risk owners and key stakeholders across Defence to better understand their risk areas and the funded activity taking place to manage cyber risk exposure.
Lead the maintenance and upkeep of Cyber Risk Management Framework, facilitating regular stakeholder engagement to ensure the framework is effective and utilised.
Lead on the continued use, exploitation and improvement of the Enterprise Cyber Risk Tool (STREAM), capturing key defence cyber risks and ensuring alignment with a wide range of critical system, vulnerability, causal and security control data.
Lead the Defence Cyber Resilience Oversight Board secretariat function, providing oversight and coordination of activity across the Department to reduce Cyber Risk and increase resilience in support of Defence Board Principal Cyber Risk.
Line management responsibilities.
This role will play an important part in the collation and management of Defence’s cyber risks, furthering the understanding of risks the Defence cyber community are carrying and enable their reduction.
Responsibilities
Responsibilities include:
Develop and maintain a wider understanding of cyber risks and capabilities, across Defence’s complex and challenging environments.
Identify possible gaps and issues, providing assessment and recommendations to inform key defence cyber and related security and digital programmes on how to mitigate these and understand how the resulting activity will help to reduce cyber risk.
Provide upward reporting and briefings, regarding cyber activity and resulting risk assessments, to enable seniors all the way up to the Defence Board to make informed investment decisions.
Working with risk owners and key stakeholders across Defence to better understand their risk areas and the funded activity taking place to manage cyber risk exposure.
Lead the maintenance and upkeep of Cyber Risk Management Framework, facilitating regular stakeholder engagement to ensure the framework is effective and utilised.
Lead on the continued use, exploitation and improvement of the Enterprise Cyber Risk Tool (STREAM), capturing key defence cyber risks and ensuring alignment with a wide range of critical system, vulnerability, causal and security control data.
Lead the Defence Cyber Resilience Oversight Board secretariat function, providing oversight and coordination of activity across the Department to reduce Cyber Risk and increase resilience in support of Defence Board Principal Cyber Risk.
Line management responsibilities.