Information Security Assessment Mgmt Sr Specialist (Malware / Ramsomware exp)

Company: Bank of America
Location: Chicago
Posted on: September 4, 2024

Job Description:

Job Description:

At Bank of America, we are guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection. Responsible Growth is how we run our company and how we deliver for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day.

One of the keys to driving Responsible Growth is being a great place to work for our teammates around the world. We're devoted to being a diverse and inclusive workplace for everyone. We hire individuals with a broad range of backgrounds and experiences and invest heavily in our teammates and their families by offering competitive benefits to support their physical, emotional, and financial well-being.

Bank of America believes both in the importance of working together and offering flexibility to our employees. We use a multi-faceted approach for flexibility, depending on the various roles in our organization.

Working at Bank of America will give you a great career with opportunities to learn, grow and make an impact, along with the power to make a difference. Join us!

This job is responsible for assessing the bank's technologies, applications, and overall security controls to identify potential risks and vulnerabilities that may impact Bank of America's information security. Key responsibilities include understanding and complying of the Bank's Global Information Security policy and relevant cyber security threats to complete security assessments. Job expectations include providing expert technical guidance to support partners and adapting testing methods to emerging cyber security regulations and evolving threats, while developing others on the team.

Associate performs research, analysis, and testing of Core Infrastructure identified AITs leveraging industry standard baselines to identify potential ransomware and malware vulnerabilities that could be exploited by a threat actor.

Ideal candidates will possess 2+ years of experience with conducting dynamic or static analysis of ransomware and malware, a broad information security background, and strong communications and interpersonal skills to engage with a variety of constituents.

The associate may routinely work with technical (infrastructure) teams and SMEs on a variety of platform, database and operating systems.The candidate should have strong technical writing skills to produce understandable and actionable reports on diverse technical security and policy issues.

The successful candidate will have a strong information security assessment background, be familiar with ransomware and malware, and be knowledgeable with the MITRE ATT&CK framework.

Responsibilities:

As a CIAR - Info Security Exposure Mgmt Senior Specialist, the individual will be focused in the following areas:

• Perform Critical Infrastructure Assurance Review (CIAR) process design and documentation.
  
• Testing of Core Infrastructure identified AITs leveraging industry standard baselines to identify potential ransomware and malware vulnerabilities etc.
  
• Works routinely with technical (infrastructure) teams and SMEs on a variety of infrastructure.
  
• Complete the assigned work within the appropriate Service Level Agreement (SLA).
  
• Exercise independent judgment in methods, techniques, and evaluation criteria for obtaining results.
  
• Perform the assessment and perform pre-assessment examination of systems of record.
  
• Finding of failed controls and submission of observations for continue monitoring.
  
• Facilitates the collection of evidence with the FLU.
  
• Perform level 1 QA and determine level of compliance.
  
• Tracking and reporting of assessment status to leadership team.
  
  
  Required Qualifications:
  
  • Proficient in ransomware and malware tactics, techniques, and procedures
    
  • 5 years exp.
    
  • Experience in Information Security and/or IT Audit
    
  • Technical writing and verbal communication skills
    
  • Ability to effectively work with partners at varying knowledge and organization levels
    
  • Ability to communicate clearly and effectively with both technology/development and business partners - ability to translate between these two constituencies.
    
  • Highly organized and motivated to deliver results with minimal direction.
    
  • Creative and proactive problem solver - ability to understand what the team needs and offer suggestions above and beyond what they desire.
    
  • Naturally curious individual with the ability to quickly become the authority in the various data and systems used by the team.
    
  • Strong relationship, team building and facilitation skills.
    
  • Good knowledge of current ransomware and malware threats and vulnerabilities, operating systems, database management and OSI Model.
    
  • Proficient with Microsoft Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel), Tableau, SharePoint.
    
    
    Desired skills:
    
    
    • Information Security certifications, including ISO27002 / CISSP / CEH / CISM / CISA
      
    • Experience in coordinating team projects
      
    • Knowledge of NIST and NSA guidelines
      
      
      This job will be open and accepting applications for a minimum of seven days from the date it was posted.
      
      Job Band:
      H4
      
      Shift:
      1st shift (United States of America)
      
      Hours Per Week:
      40
      
      Weekly Schedule:
      
      Referral Bonus Amount:
      0
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