Cyber Operations-Vice President
Company: Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC)
Location: New York
Posted on: April 28, 2024
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Job Description:
SMBC Group is a top-tier global financial group. Headquartered
in Tokyo and with a 400-year history, SMBC Group offers a diverse
range of financial services, including banking, leasing,
securities, credit cards, and consumer finance. The Group has more
than 130 offices and 80,000 employees worldwide in nearly 40
countries. Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc. (SMFG) is the
holding company of SMBC Group, which is one of the three largest
banking groups in Japan. SMFG's shares trade on the Tokyo, Nagoya,
and New York (NYSE: SMFG) stock exchanges.In the Americas, SMBC
Group has a presence in the US, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Chile,
Colombia, and Peru. Backed by the capital strength of SMBC Group
and the value of its relationships in Asia, the Group offers a
range of commercial and investment banking services to its
corporate, institutional, and municipal clients. It connects a
diverse client base to local markets and the organization's
extensive global network. The Group's operating companies in the
Americas include Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. (SMBC), SMBC Nikko
Securities America, Inc., SMBC Capital Markets, Inc., SMBC Rail
Services LLC, Manufacturers Bank, JRI America, Inc., SMBC Leasing
and Finance, Inc., Banco Sumitomo Mitsui Brasileiro S.A., and
Sumitomo Mitsui Finance and Leasing Co., Ltd.The anticipated salary
range for this role is between $137,000.00and $185,000.00. The
specific salary offered to an applicant will be based on their
individual qualifications, experiences, and an analysis of the
current compensation paid in their geography and the market for
similar roles at the time of hire. The role may also be eligible
for an annual discretionary incentive award. In addition to cash
compensation, SMBC offers a competitive portfolio of benefits to
its employees.Role DescriptionReporting to the Director of Cyber &
Operational Resilience, this role supports the 1st Line of Defense
(LOD) Information Security Group Department Americas Division's
(GPDAD) and International Group Companies managing activities
related to Cyber Resilience and Application Security Testing in
accordance with applicable regulations, Head Office policies and
industry practices for Information Security and Operational
Resilience.
The Cyber Operations VP will be responsible for partnering with
security teams to detect, analyze, prioritized, report, and manage
the closure of vulnerabilities discovered from a combination of
manual and automated penetration testing, agent-based code scans
and applications scans. Focus areas include security testing
vulnerabilities management, cyber resilience controls enhancements,
and cyber resilience assessments from the attack lens.
Additionally, improving our cyber resilience operational
partnerships and collaboration to increase readiness in cyber
resilience. This includes driving alignment and enhancement of
cyber resilience focused controls, data, and risks. Represent Cyber
& Operational Resilience by participating in information
technology, data management, asset management, cybersecurity, and
operational resilience management across various businesses group
companies, and functions of the bank. This includes regional
resilience coordination and reporting of progress to executive
leadership.Role ObjectivesVulnerability Management - manages team
that will perform remediation management, reporting, and escalation
of vulnerabilities identified through Cyber Resilience testing
activities to include penetration testing and application security
testing.
*Manage and enhance the remediation management function in
partnership with the SMBC America Division and Affiliated
companies.
*Assist in the analysis and remediation of findings discovered
during scheduled internal and third-party vulnerability scans
penetration testing, threat modeling, insider threats, exercise
after action reports and cyber resilience assessments.
*Help build, design, and/or enhance dashboard reporting that
provides actionable information and status report such as:
vulnerabilities categorized, prioritized and action taken to manage
exposure, mitigation plans and closure timeline.
*Create a "Report Card" approach for providing and reporting of
applications, and group companies. Communicates the results of
cyber resilience activities, will present remediation items for
technical debt reduction to the business, application, security,
and group company owners and prioritize efforts.
*Review and triage ad-hoc vulnerability alerts in collaboration
with the Security Operations Center (SOC), Security Testing Team,
and other SMEs (Subject Matter Expert), as necessary.
*Work with global security teams such as Global SOC and remediation
management to identify thematic patterns and propose strategic
actions to reduce risk.
*Collaborate with leadership to analyze trends, variances, and
intelligence across the SMBC Groups companies and proactively
presents findings backed by data and relevant authoritative
sources, internal policies, procedures, etc.
*Vulnerability Tracking and Reporting: Centralized repository or
tool to track identified vulnerabilities and their status.
Cyber Resilience Assessments - manages team that will perform and
coordinate cyber resilience assessments, such as CRI Profile, CRR,
FRB SR 20-24, and other ad hoc assessments based on industry
standards and regulatory change or guidance.
*Understands changes related to regulatory, new product/initiative,
processes, controls, events, issues, etc., in the IT, data
management, and cybersecurity domains that may impact the
operational risk profile of the bank.
*Coordinating firm-wide functional engagement and escalation of
cyber security issues and delivering firm-wide awareness of cyber
security issues
*Conducting internal cyber risk assessments of the Firm's mission
critical information assets, associated workflows, and/or systems
storing, processing, or transmitting mission critical
information
*Assisting with the design of Control Action Plans to close gaps
identified during cyber risk assessments and cyber activities and
tracking through closure.
*Implement cyber resilience risk assessment processes to ensure
that controls would be sustainable during a cyber-attack.
*Help build and develop cyber resilience assessment prioritization
schedule in coordination with Governance, Risk and Compliance,
Business Resilience, Operational Resilience, and other departments
to assess prior assessment coverage areas and ongoing mitigation
activities.
*Obtain deep understanding of the risk, controls, important
business services and critical products and current cyber threat
landscape.
*Analyze gaps within the proper context, business impacts and in
collaboration with identified stakeholders, risk-ranked and
prioritize gaps and findings.
*Develop reporting to provide management with gaps from a thematic
perspective, and partner with gap owners to prioritize, develop and
implement action plans.Role Objectives continuedCyber Resilience
Control - reviews existing cyber resilience controls spread across
an international matrixed firm to understand the greatest threats
and capabilities during a cyber-attack.
*Manages the library of cyber resilience controls (NIST 800.53),
regulations, and risk enhancements and alignment across all
resilience activities to provide holistic insight into current
capabilities and risk themes.
*Manages the CR Controls library and crosswalks to firm controls
assessments.
*Cyber Analytics which develop quantitative processes and solutions
to measure, automate, report on, and model Information Security
controls.
*Identifies opportunities for control enhancements for critical and
vulnerable activities.
*Develop a deep knowledge of SMBC critical services and
dependencies on technology, people, processes and third parties to
support business impact determination procedures to assess impact
of security vulnerabilities and threats to the business.
*Manage and report on inventory of security staff certifications
and training.Contribution to Cyber & Operational Resilience
Program:
*Supports the Director of Operational & Cyber Resilience in
ensuring business and operational resilience controls, and
processes are identified, prioritized, and mitigated. Additionally
ensuring our stance in the financial market infrastructure is
secure by design to manage cyber threats, either through the
corruption or loss of data or outright loss of systems.
*Support resilience by design activities and contribution as SME in
the Americas and regional functional routines and information
security services.
*Ad hoc partnerships such as mergers and acquisitions with
resilience by design lens.
*Provides ad-hoc Cyber Resilience reporting to management as
requested.
*Develop specialized cyber resilience training for business, tech
teams and group companies.Qualifications and Skills* Well-versed in
Cyber Resilience to include technology, incident response and cyber
risk practices with the ability to connect and align with the
firm's operational resilience processes and framework.
* 6+ years of direct work experience within the financial services
industry with focus on business information security operations
(BISO), operational resilience, cyber security, application
security, vulnerability management, and operational or technology
risk management as it relates to cyber threats.
* Working knowledge of business and cyber risk management process
and controls, industry practices, and frameworks (e.g., NIST
800-53, ISO 27001).
* Broad knowledge of cloud technologies (Cloud certifications a
plus)
* Detail oriented, with proven ability to question the status quo
and apply resilience activities to enhance capabilities, as
appropriate.
* Strong organizational skills, with proven ability to successfully
manage multiple, concurrent priorities and team members as the
program is built out.
* Ability to communicate and work effectively in a matrixed
environment and across various organizational levels, where
flexibility, collaboration, and adaptability are important at all
levels.
* Strong analytical skills and attention to detail.
* Foundational knowledge of international banking laws and
regulations. (FFIEC, BCBS, FCA, PRA, BoE, GDPR, etc.)
* Maintain a business cyber threat mindset to understand underlying
risks and weaknesses to properly assist in mitigating and
enhancement activities.
* Strong desire to continually deliver a quality and meaningful
work product in a timely and efficient manner.
* BA/BS in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Information
Systems, Cyber Security, Business Administration, or demonstrated
relevant industry background and/or military experience.
* DRII. CISSP, CCRP, ORCS, OR, or other Cyber Incident Response or
IT risk/security certifications preferred.Additional
RequirementsD&I CommitmentResponsible for fostering a culture
of diversity and inclusion, holding leaders accountable for
creating an inclusive environment through awareness and practice of
equity in recruiting, developing, and promoting diverse
talent.SMBC's employees participate in a hybrid workforce model
that provides employees with an opportunity to work from home, as
well as, from an SMBC office. SMBC requires that employees live
within a reasonable commuting distance of their office location.
Prospective candidates will learn more about their specific hybrid
work schedule during their interview process.
We are an equal employment opportunity employer. All qualified
applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard
to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, disability
status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic
protected by law. SMBC provides reasonable accommodations for
employees and applicants with disabilities consistent with
applicable law. If you need a reasonable accommodation during the
application process, please let us know at
accommodations@smbcgroup.com.
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