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Job Description
Information security specialist plan, develop and carry out security measures to protect an organization's computer networks and systems. This position will provide support and guidance in relation to securing a variety of technical resources including the network and communications infrastructure, firewall, servers/storage, cloud-hosted systems, databases, web and other types of applications. The position will be responsible for analyzing existing security procedures and suggesting changes for increased efficiency and extra security.
Skills
-Develop security standards and best practices, and recommend security enhancements to the organization.
- Monitor the compliance, facilitate and execute enforcement of the corporate Information Security policy.
- Keep up to date with the latest security and technology developments.
- Research/evaluate emerging cyber security threats and ways to manage them.
- Troubleshoot security access related issues within Host, Network, Internet, Email and Applications of the organization.
- Determine security violations, vulnerabilities and inefficiencies by conducting periodic audits, security scans.
- Minimize security threats by monitoring and examining network infrastructure and devices, identifying security flaws.
- Monitor the organization’s networks (firewall, switches etc.) for security breaches and to prevent data loss, identity theft.
- Evaluates and monitors the security of public facing websites and applications both internally hosted and cloud based.
- Administers and maintains network security applications as firewalls, antiviruses and data encryption programs, to protect sensitive information and minimize risks of data exposure.
- Investigate a violation when one occurs, prepare reports that document security breaches and the extent of the damage caused by the breaches.
- Serve as member on application project teams to ensure the application complies with the organization’s information security standards.
- Training staff on network and information security procedures.
Education
Information Security, Computer Science, Information assurance, Programming, or any related Major