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The Senior Director, Information Security is a leadership role that supports the business in overseeing and driving organizational information security and governance strategy, frameworks, policies and practices enabling a risk-free and scalable business operations.
This role plays an important role in safeguarding the company's information assets, ensuring compliance with security legislations, and protecting against cyber threats.
The Senior Director, Information Security collaborates with cross functional teams, executive leadership and other stakeholders to establish and maintain a robust and proactive information security posture whilst fostering a collaborative and innovative team culture focused on operational excellence.
Key responsibilities:- Contributes towards the development and drives the implementation of an organization-wide information security strategy aligned with the NTT's business objectives.
- Contributes towards establishing and maintaining information security policies, procedures, standards, and guidelines that comply with industry best practices and regulatory requirements.
- Oversees the identification, assessment and management of information security risks across the organization, including data, systems, networks, and third-party relationships.
- Promotes a culture of security awareness among employees through training, education, and regular communication.
- Oversees the development and execution of incident response plans to effectively address and mitigate security incidents.
- Ensures organizational compliance with relevant security regulations, laws, and industry standards.
- Assesses and selects appropriate security technologies and solutions to protect NTT's digital assets.
- Implements security monitoring tools and systems to detect and respond to security threats and providing regular reports to executive leadership and stakeholders.
- Stays informed about emerging security threats and industry trends to continuously enhance the organization's security posture.
- Evaluates security risks associated with third-party vendors and service providers and implementing risk mitigation strategies.
- Effectively communicates security incidents, responses, and mitigation efforts to relevant stakeholders.
- Coordinates and manages internal and external security audits and assessments.
- Provides guidance and leadership to the information security team, ensuring adherence to security policies and procedures.
To thrive in this role, you need to have:- Significantly vast knowledge of security frameworks and standards (for example, ISO 27001, NIST, CIS, etc.).
- Significantly vast knowledge about PCI, HIPAA, NIST, GLBA and SOX compliance assessments.
- Significantly vast understanding of security technologies, tools, and best practices.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills with the ability to effectively convey complex security concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
- Significantly vast leadership and team management skills to lead and motivate a diverse security team.
- Strategic thinking and problem-solving abilities with a focus on delivering results.
- Significantly vast business acumen and the ability to align security objectives with overall business objectives.
- Significantly vast understanding of and knowledge for business needs and a commitment to lead the information security team in delivering high-quality, prompt, and efficient service to the business.
- Significantly vast decision-making capabilities, with a proven ability to weigh the relative costs and benefits of potential actions and identify the most appropriate one.
Academic qualifications and certifications:- Bachelor's degree or equivalent in business administration or a technology-related field such computer science or information technology or related preferred.
- An advanced degree such as an MBA or Masters in an IT related field with a security focus preferred.
- Related Cybersecurity, risk management and data privacy certifications preferred such as CompTIA Security+, CISSP, CISM, CISA, and/or CEH.
Required experience:- Significantly vast demonstrated experience in a combination of risk management, information security and IT roles in a global organization.
- Proven track record of successfully developing and implementing enterprise-wide information security strategies and initiatives.
- Significantly vast demonstrated experience with contract and vendor negotiations and management.
- Substantial demonstrated experience in Agile (scaled) software development or other best in class development practices.
- Significantly vast demonstrated experience with Cloud computing / Elastic computing across virtualized environments.
- Significantly vast demonstrated experience in risk management, compliance and regulatory requirements related to information security.
- Significantly vast demonstrated working with national and international regulatory compliance frameworks such as NIST, ISO, SOX, EU GDPR, CCPA and PCI DSS.
- Significantly vast demonstrated experience and working knowledge of the following areas of technical expertise - information policy formulation, information security management, business risk management, IT risk assessment and management, IT continuity management, IT governance formulation, and organizational change management, IT financial management and IT audit.
Workplace type:
Hybrid Working
About NTT DATA
NTT DATA is a $30+ billion business and technology services leader, serving 75% of the Fortune
Global 100. We are committed to accelerating client success and positively impacting society through
responsible innovation. We are one of the world’s leading AI and digital infrastructure providers, with
unmatched capabilities in enterprise-scale AI, cloud, security, connectivity, data centers and
application services. Our consulting and industry solutions help organizations and society move
confidently and sustainably into the digital future. As a Global Top Employer, we have experts in more
than 70 countries. We also offer clients access to a robust ecosystem of innovation centers as well as
established and start-up partners. NTT DATA is part of NTT Group, which invests over $3 billion each
year in R&D.
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