Assoc. Dir. DDIT Detection & Response

Associate Director DDIT Detection & Response

Location – Malaysia #LI Hybrid

About the Role:

The Detection and Response Associate Director will be an integral part of the Novartis Cyber Security Operations Center (CSOC). The Novartis CSOC is an advanced security team that has reinvented Security Operations. It is comprised of a global team passionate about defending Novartis against modern and sophisticated IT security threats and attacks.  The Detection and Response Associate Director will leverage a variety of tools and resources to detect, investigate, and mitigate threats impacting Novartis’ networks, systems, users, and applications. This role will involve coordination and communication with technical and nontechnical teams, including security leadership and business stakeholders.  This is a position intended for an experienced professional, and will challenge and grow their technical investigation, IT security, and leadership skillsets.

Key Responsibilities:

• Monitor in real time security controls and consoles from across the Novartis IT ecosystem
• Communicate with technical and non-technical end users who report suspicious activity
• Serve as escalation point for conducting investigations into security incidents involving advanced and sophisticated threat actors and TTPs
• Perform forensic collection and analysis of electronic assets and devices, scripts and malicious software, and log sources from a variety of systems and applications
• Manage incident response activities including scoping, communication, reporting, and long term remediation planning
• Utilizing SIEM/Big data to identify abnormal activity and extract meaningful insights.
• Interface with engineering teams to design, test, and implement playbooks, orchestration workflows and automations
• Research and test new technologies and platforms; develop recommendations and improvement plans

Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion: :

We are committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams representative of the patients and communities we serve.

Essential Requirements:

• 6+ years of experience in Incident Response / Computer Forensics / CSOC team / Threat Hunting or related fields.
• Experienced IT administration with broad and in-depth technical, analytical and conceptual skills.
• Experience in reporting to and communicating with senior level management (with and without IT background, with and without in depth risk management background) on incident response topics.
• Excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills; interpersonal and collaborative skills; and the ability to communicate information risk-related and incident response concepts to technical as well as nontechnical audiences.
• Excellent understanding and knowledge of general IT infrastructure technology and  systems.
• Proven experience to initiate and manage projects that will affect CSOC services and technologies.

Desirable Requirements:

• Good mediation and facilitation skills.
• Good knowledge of IT Security Project Management.
• Experience with security incident monitoring and response related to medical devices.
• Knowledge of (information) risk management related standards or frameworks such as COSO, ISO 2700x, CobiT, ISO 24762, BS 25999, NIST, ISF Standard of Good Practice and ITIL.
• Knowledge of security frameworks such as Hitrust.

Why Novartis: Our purpose is to reimagine medicine to improve and extend people’s lives and our vision is to become the most valued and trusted medicines company in the world. How can we achieve this? With our people. It is our associates that drive us each day to reach our ambitions. Be a part of this mission and join us! Learn more here: https://www.novartis.com/about/strategy/people-and-culture

You’ll receive: You can find everything you need to know about our benefits and rewards in the Novartis Life Handbook. https://www.novartis.com/careers/benefits-rewards

Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion:
Novartis is committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams' representative of the patients and communities we serve.
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