Head of Cyber Security Operations Centre at Standard Bank Group

Job description

The Head of CSOC provides strategic leadership of the Cyber Security Operations Centre while ensuring the alignment, engagement and effectiveness of the Security Operations team, goals, objectives and KPIs.

The Head of CSOC has direct oversight of Incident Response, Cyber Threat Intelligence, Detection and Monitoring teams which are rapidly growing. You will have a strategic, enterprise view of the organization and will work with the Information Security Community and business stakeholders to drive out requirements.

This role has a group wide mandate and is responsible for detection and response of Cyber incidents across the Group

• Plan, design and implement an overall risk management process for the CSOC. The process includes: detection, triage, analysis, containment, recovery and reporting.
• Lead the incident response process and execution including unauthorized access, security policy violations and Data Loss Incidents.
• Manage and execute processes responsible for the advanced analysis of security threat intelligence (malicious code, hackers and zero day exploits, etc.) in order to proactively prepare for security events;
• Expand and mature existing incident response processes and activities;
• Develop communication channels with the business units to ensure solid incident response and risk assessment processes;
• Work with cross functional organizations in analysis of security controls and best practices;
• Provide assistance in external audits, certifications and accreditations, to achieve and maintain compliance.