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Southern Company

IT Security-Fusion Center Team Lead

Company: 
Southern Company
City: 
Atlanta
State: 
Georgia
Employment type: 
Full time
Remote Position: 
No
Required degree level: 
Other

Job Description: IT Security - Fusion Center Team Lead

Schedule: M-F

Location: Atlanta or Birmingham

POSITION SUMMARY:

Do you have a passion for finding bad guys?

Is curiosity your primary talent?

Is your ideal career at the intersection of technology and people that use it?

A leading U.S. energy company seeks an experienced IT security professional to join an Insider Threat Fusion Center in a technical leadership role. The candidate will directly support the company's efforts to address real and potential insider threats to the company's facilities, personnel, technology, operations, and brand. The selected candidate will serve as the Fusion Center Team Lead charged with: 1) coordinating programmatic elements with other company stakeholders, 2) advancing technical capabilities, 3) managing the analytical work of the team.

The Team Lead will leverage his/her experience running an Insider Threat program, leading others, managing cybersecurity projects, program management, and cyber-physical threat analysis to identify and track potential insider threat activity, primarily using digital data sources. The successful applicant should have a demonstrable track record of successfully teaming with other organizational components to identify and mitigate risk in both the technology and human domains. The Team Lead will deliver clear and concise assessments, briefings, and reports to partners and executive leadership. The Team Lead will also need to understand operational risks at the corporate level and develop relationships across the company that will support coordinated response strategies based on the company's Insider Threat Mitigation Program plan.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Lead the day-to-day operations of the Insider Threat Fusion Center
  • Lead the deployment of innovative data correlation tools and practices
  • Lead efforts to monitor and track activity that crosses risk thresholds and conduct inquiry to classify activity for further investigation and resolution
  • Oversee programmatic aspects of the Fusion Center, including IT projects to create new capabilities
  • Participate with the Fusion Center Team in performing threat analysis, documenting and presenting findings, and improving existing methodologies for technical threat assessment
  • Understand and utilize relevant data sets, analytic techniques, and visualization tools to assimilate and interpret sources from across the company and identify potential insider threat behavior
  • Compare analytic results against known tactics, techniques and procedures historically associated with advanced insider threats
  • Communicate alerts on potential insider activity to cross-functional teams
  • Coordinate with working-level representatives to Fusion Center from key organizations such as human resources, general counsel, compliance, etc. for information sharing, situational awareness and determination of responsive action on insider threats
  • Oversee the implementation of workflows for insider threat evaluations
  • Lead the production of defined-scope threat assessments to assist in mitigating identified insider vulnerabilities
  • Provide operational and programmatic briefings to management
  • Support definition, monitoring, and reporting of effectiveness metrics on an ongoing basis


REQUIREMENTS:

  • BA/BS in computer science, technology, engineering or security-related field or equivalent experience
  • Demonstrable experience leading or building an Insider Threat Program in a technology environment
  • Understanding of best practices for detecting and classifying insider threats
  • Familiarity with behaviors and indicators, both physical and information systems-related, associated with insider threats
  • Experience leading the enterprise deployment of new analytic tools in an IT environment
  • Demonstrated expertise using multiple analytic methodologies, programs, and tools in support of cyber and human threat analysis
  • Independent thinker with strong analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Experience using DLP and User Behavioral Analytics (UBA) tools
  • Experience communicating with senior stakeholders inside and outside the company
  • Familiarity with global threats to the energy sector preferred
  • Insider Threat or Information Security certification such as ITPM or CISSP preferred


#LI

Together with our subsidiaries, we deliver clean, safe, reliable and affordable energy to our 9 million customers. Our focus is doing so with service excellence.

That means we are leaders who take action to meet our customers’ and communities’ needs while advancing our commitment to net zero emissions by 2050. We create community value through energy, social, economic, and environmental progress.

We do this through electric operating companies in three states and natural gas distribution companies in four. Our family of companies draw on diverse energy sources to create the best mix for our service areas, including electricity, natural gas, solar power, carbon-free nuclear, and other sustainable sources.

We leverage our leading distributed energy infrastructure company and other innovative technology to better serve every customer. Our competitive, national generation company serves wholesale customers, and our family includes a fiber optics network, and telecommunications services.

We have positioned diversity and inclusion as critical to our success enabling us to put the needs and well-being of the people we serve at the center of all that we do.

Southern Company believes all employees should feel welcome, valued, respected and heard. Our goal is a workplace in which all employees contribute to their fullest and a workforce that reflects our customers and communities. We accomplish this by valuing and leveraging the full range of differences and similarities we bring to our teams, customers and communities.

Workplace Awards

  • 2023 100% Corporate Equality Index Score - Human Rights Campaign (7th consecutive year)
  • 2023 America's Best-In-State Employers – Forbes
    • Southern Company (No. 1 in Alabama, No. 5 in Georgia)
  • 2023 Best Employers for Women (No. 9) - Forbes
  • 2023 America’s Greatest Workplaces – Newsweek
  • 2023 Best Companies for Multicultural Women – Seramount
  • 2023 Top 50 Companies for Diversity - DiversityInc (8th consecutive year)
    • No. 1 Top Company for Black executives
    • No. 3 Top Company for Veterans
    • No. 5 Top Company for Supplier Diversity
    • No. 14 - Top Company for Executive Diversity Councils
  • 2022 Global 200 – Forbes
  • 2022 Best Employers for Women - Forbes
  • 2023 America’s Best Employers for Diversity - Forbes
  • 2023 America’s Greatest Workplaces for Diversity - Newsweek
  • 2023 America’s Best Large Employers – Forbes
    • No. 15 overall, top utility
  • 2023 Top 100 Military-Friendly Employer (No. 2) - GI Jobs magazine
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