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SECURITYFOCUS JOBS - NEW OPPORTUNITY
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JOB DESCRIPTION
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Position: Auditor
Location: Whitehouse Station, New Jersey, US
Type: Permanent F/T
Closing Date: 06/23/2005
Salary: $55-$75K
He/she is responsible for safeguarding the confidential information, assets and
intellectual property, which belong to or are processed by the company. He/she
is responsible for developing, maintaining, and deploying information systems
security auditing, reporting and timely documentation detailing
system(s)/network security vulnerabilities. He/She will execute security
audits and scans and compile comprehensive reports directly related to
customers specific risk plan, business plan and content. Interfaces directly
with customers to meet and exceed security-auditing and remediation
requirements.
The primary activities of this position are to coordinate system security scans
and audits to ensure confidentiality and integrity of customer assets. Review
and analyze configurations, modifications, and application vulnerabilities
defined via security auditing tools. Coordinate the development of customer
security auditing reports and processes. Evaluate and test the most modern
technical security auditing equipment and devices, ultimately identifying
products that meet the business risk-cost analysis budget and provide the
highest levels of logical security. Identify vulnerable system areas
recommend corrections to faulty configurations. Discover and provide detailed
reporting pertaining to identify systems weaknesses, including recommended
remediation steps for risk mitigation. Pending business, systems changes,
reevaluate auditing scans, processes ensuring adequate security access levels
without interruption of business practices or impacting missions. Assist de
partments in documenting work procedures, violations and security risks.
Write user and operations manuals (SOPs) for in-house security applications.
Generate and distribute professional periodic security updates. Monitor,
maintain and reporting of all deployed security audits and scans and
remediation activities. Develop, maintain, update and coordinate life cycle of
systems security files. Upgrade systems auditing needs as required to ensure
security detection devices and equipment are performing appropriately.
JOB REQUIREMENTS
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Bachelor’s degree in computer science complemented by industry
certification relating directly to info security preferred or equivalent of 4
plus years experience in network, systems, enterprise security. Minimum of
four years experience in systems administration environment experience with
security access devices, system/network surveillance monitoring, database
management, policy development, physical security design, planning and training
desired. Windows/Unix administration, the Internet and TCP/IP, protocol
encryption services, scanning software, and intrusion detection devices. Must
have working knowledge of PC operations and exposure to programming. Ability to
relate to a broad range of applications, skill levels and systems processes.
Strong oral and written communicative skills, including organization and
delivery of presentation materials to individuals and groups. Expertise with
documentation and authoring security policy, plans, auditing analysis, compar
ative and corrective reporting and standard operating procedures desired.
CONTACT
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Erin Fallon
Research Associate
Alta Associates
erin@altaassociates.com
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