Information Risk Consultant, Access Governance

Description

The Access and Data Governance (ADG) work unit is responsible for governance and controls on how identities, entitlements and data resources within our organization are created, provisioned, managed and terminated.  The primary focus is on protecting customer and corporate data, ensuring availability, and minimizing risk.  ADG enables our business operations community to achieve their goals and objectives while ensuring appropriate controls are in place and effective. This position works directly with business process owners, project teams and analysts to identify functional requirements and process controls.

Team members will contribute to the furthering of technical solutions gathering required data through direct observation and/or inquiry, synthesizing data into meaningful observation, analyzing, identifying and problem solving from information sets (issues could be business or systems issues) drawing conclusions from information sets based on analysis, creating hypotheses and presenting recommendations to team; developing customer specific requirements, standard operating procedures, process flow and user guides.

Team members work closely with infrastructure, architecture, engineering, operations, Compliance, Privacy, business teams and other areas as necessary to develop access and data governance solutions including education and awareness, adoption of policies, standards, processes, controls and technologies.  This position is required to comply with all HM Health Solutions Corporate Policies and Information Security Policies, Standards and Procedures.

This job works closely with infrastructure architecture/engineering/operations, compliance, privacy, business teams and other areas necessary to identify risks to the business and drive solutions ranging from education and awareness to the adoption of new/existing policies, standards, processes, controls and technologies. The scope of this position is to proactively test for compliance with security policies and procedures and to recommend potential new approaches. This position is required to comply with all HM Health Solutions Corporate Policies and Information Security Policies, Standards and Procedures.

ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES 

• Conduct Information Risk Assessments as assigned to the team.  Request and analyze documentation necessary to perform appropriate assessment and conduct necessary interviews in order to collect and review relevant materials necessary to produce results of the assessment.
• Clearly and concisely document and communicate risk assessment results with requestor, security architects and management, as appropriate.
• Conduct and formulate appropriate risk scoring, as it relates to threat, vulnerability, likelihood, impact, security controls/counter-measures, etc.
• Understand and contribute to inventory of risk register tracking, scoring and associated risk statements.
• Perform follow up activities related to exceptions, risk acceptance, corrective action plans and additional mitigation activities.
• Communicate risk treatment methodology; risk avoidance, risk acceptance, risk transference and risk mitigation to appropriate groups.
• Partner with multiple projects and initiatives to apply security architecture requirements, develop architecture solutions, integrate security into solution designs, access risks of security gaps, and develop architecture remediation.
• Assist HM Health Solutions teams in developing and maintaining appropriate procedural documentation which meets relevant compliance standards, such as Payment Card Industry - Data Security Standards (PCI-DSS), Health Information Trust Alliance (HITRUST), and International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 27001.
• Prepare and present solution decks to different levels of management and varying technical experience.
• Begin to take lead role in assuring compliance to required standards, procedures, guidelines and processes.
• Other duties as assigned or requested.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's Degree - Information Security, Information Systems,  Information Assurance, Computer Science or related field
  • Substitutions: At least 7 years' experience in Information Security, Governance, Risk and/or Compliance
• 3 - 5 years' experience in Information Security and/or Information Risk Management and/or Information Technology                  
• 1 - 3 years' experience within Information Security Governance, Risk and/or Compliance functions and activities                       
• 1 - 3 years’ experience developing, communicating and presenting Information Security and Risk Management concepts to varying audiences                 
• Familiarity with technologies such as intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS), firewalls, endpoint protection, web/email filtering, Data Loss Prevention (DLP), digital rights management, encryption, Security Event and Incident Management (SEIM), and virtualization platforms

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Master’s Degree - Computer Science, Information Security or related field
• 5 - 7 years' experience in Information Security and/or Information Risk Management and/or Information Technology
• 5 - 7 years' experience in Information Security and/or Information Risk Management and/or Information Technology
• Strong analytical experience
• Identify Access Management experience
• Knowledgeable in Infrastructure and application access practices/methodologies
• Audit experience; deciphering controls/requirements, adhering to controls, delivering evidence and interacting with internal/external auditors
• Experience working within an information security function using the HITRUST Common Security Framework (HITRUST CSF), or the NIST 800-83 cyber security framework      
• Experience supporting SSAE 16, SCO 1 or SOC 2 Security Trust Principle audits                           
• Governance Risk and Compliance (GRC) tool experience such as ARCHER                    
• Understanding of network security architecture, network and networking protocols                         
• Security industry organization participation / leadership (HITRUST, ISACA, InfraGard, ISC2, ISSA, etc.)

TRAVEL REQUIREMENT: 0%- 25%

Referral Payout Level: 4

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