Chief Information Security Officer - BFSI

Our clients are looking to engage CISOs on part time or full time-short term for overseeing the overall IT, Information and Data security for their organization. This will include strategic vision, scoping of requirements, design, development, implementation, incident response, budgets and adherence to all necessary protocols, regulations and any legal requirements.

Remote work with teams. The countries specifically are India, Singapore, Malaysia and UAE.

Overall Responsibilities :

- Organisational strategic decision-making, system implementations, and the adoption of new processes and procedures improving the security and robustness of organisations infrastructure, IT projects and associated systems.

- Overseeing the teams that are working to identify and safeguard organisation from all known and developing security threats, security weaknesses, software bugs and exploits.

- Overall responsibility for both the staff and management processes that keep the organisation secure from the ever-present threats that an insecure and dangerous world creates.

- Ultimately responsible for overseeing organisations current Data, IT and Information Security and any new software or hardware modifications impacting upon overall data security.

Key Responsibilities :

- Definition, Scoping, Creation and execution of IT and Data Security strategies enhancing the reliability and security of the IT systems, projects and underlying data

- Overseeing managers and teams that you are responsible for, allocating resources to ensure that staff deliver secure and robust IT solutions to any of the organisations identified and agreed requirements.

- Overseeing planning and execution of necessary vulnerability audits, penetration testing or forensic IT audits and investigations. Ensure that outputs improve your organisational IT Security.

- Liaise with senior level directors, the organisation's board and other key stakeholders plus managers, programmers and IT Security risk-assessment staff under your remit.

- Oversee integration of new IT Systems Development with the organization's overall IT, Data and Information Security policies.

- Oversee staff training in all the latest security awareness skills, Check associated protocols, methodologies and procedures are implemented.

- Ensure compliance with any related legislation, such as the Data Protection Act, ISO standards or relevant government regulations.

- Plan budget allocations and associated financial forecasts relating to IT, Data and Information security.

- Manage your staff's technical and personal development, new hires, dispute resolution, redundancy and potentially termination of staff.

- Liaise with and manage your partners, stakeholders, vendors, and third party service or solutions providers.

- Oversee projects, budgets and resources under your remit with a view to ensuring that your organisation gets a favourable return on its investments in staff, hardware, software and service providers.

Skills :

- Relevant experience in a variety of IT Security related roles, with in-depth knowledge will to effectively manage any and all aspects of the IT, Data and Information Security

- In depth project management skills

- Good understanding of all current legislation and regulations pertaining to your organisation

- Successful track record of effective coordination, prioritization, collaboration, organisation and project delivery

- Experience in financial forecasting and budget allocation

- Knowledge of relevant IT Security related hardware, software and vendor solutions

- An overall understanding of the scripting and source code programming languages, such as C#, C++, .NET, Java, Perl, PHP, Python or Ruby On Rails etc. that your teams will be using

- Practical experience of computer operating systems such as MS Windows, UNIX/Linux

- Deep thinking analytical mind with the ability to quickly get to the root cause of issues

- You will need to be organised, efficient and able to work unsupervised under your own initiative

- A good leader

- Outstanding written and verbal communication skills