Director/Cyber Security Risk Governance,
Role Overview
Leads governance of cyber security risks affecting critical infrastructure, revenue-generating services, and sensitive data.
Supports business objectives, regulatory compliance, international standards, organizational resilience, and digital ambitions.
Key Skills for This Role
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Role overview
Leads governance of cyber security risks affecting critical infrastructure, revenue-generating services, and sensitive data.
Supports business objectives, regulatory compliance, international standards, organizational resilience, and digital ambitions.
Governance and risk leadership
- Develop and continuously improve the cyber security risk governance framework, policies, and standards.
- Establish risk appetite, tolerance levels, and governance mechanisms.
- Oversee identification, analysis, assessment, and prioritization of cyber risks across critical infrastructure.
- Ensure risk treatment plans, controls, and mitigations are implemented and monitored.
- Govern compliance with national regulations, telecom requirements, and international standards.
- Lead cross-functional coordination and align technical teams, business units, and support functions.
- Explain complex risks to senior management and periodically present the cyber security risk profile.
- Improve assessment methodologies, governance processes, and reporting; lead and develop the governance team.
- Promote risk awareness and monitor global cyber threats, trends, and regulatory requirements.
Qualifications and experience
- BSc in Cyber Security or Computer Engineering.
- CISSP and CRISC certifications.
- Hands-on experience developing policies, standards, and guidelines.
- Knowledge of telecom and IT standards including ITU, ETSI, ISO, SIA, GSM, and 3GPP.
- Knowledge of security technologies and controls including GRC, UTM, IPS/IDS, WAF, SIEM, IAM, PAM, DDoS, AEP, NDR, and EDR.
- Understanding of security architecture and design, risk assessment, planning, project management, documentation, and presentation.
- Ability to conduct service risk assessments covering threats, threat actors, vulnerabilities, and impacts.
Additional risk work
Conduct comprehensive risk assessments and track issues using risk management methodologies.
Apply and support risk management frameworks in projects.
Perform security gap analyses across projects, applications, and vendors, and document remediation plans.
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