SonicWall is a cybersecurity forerunner with more than 30 years of expertise and is recognized as a leading partner-first company, ensuring our partners and their customers are never alone in the fight against cybercrime. With the ability to build, scale and manage security across the cloud, hybrid and traditional environments in real-time, SonicWall provides relentless security against the most evasive cyberattacks across endless exposure points for increasingly remote, mobile and cloud-enabled users. With its own threat research center, SonicWall can quickly and economically provide purpose-built security solutions to enable any organization—enterprise, government agencies and SMBs—around the world. For more information, visit www.sonicwall.com or follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram.
We are seeking a skilled and proactive Staff Security Program Manager to join our dynamic security team and help protect our organization's digital assets. The ideal candidate will be responsible for leading security policy changes, ensuring compliance in external audits, and maintaining robust security standards. This role requires strong program management capabilities and a strategic mindset to support end-user security awareness programs, BC/DR, manage security metrics, and oversee third-party vendor assessments.
Key Responsibilities:
Policy & Compliance Leadership:
- Lead security policy updates and implementation across the organization
- Represent the security team during external audits, ensuring compliance and readiness
- Continuous update and improve internal security policies, working closely with key stakeholder throughout the organization
Business Continuity / Disaster Recovery (BC/DR):
- Lead and develop a robust Business Continuity / Disaster Recovery plan
- Lead and develop a Risk Assessment & Business Impact Analysis (BIA), identifying critical functions, potential risks, and impact disruptions
- Work with key stakeholders to create continuity strategies, developing plans to maintain operations
- Establish procedures forthe emergency response team, RTO and RPO, training and awareness, and continues improvement.
- Lead and develop technical recovery process for IT systems ensuring redundancy, incident response, infrastructure resilience and recovery test
- Establish consistent tabletop experiences
End-User Awareness Security Programs:
- Drive and support an end-user support program with monthly and quarterly end-user security awareness initiatives
- Establish and maintain an employee security awareness training program.
- Ensure security remains a priority for all employees through training and engagement
Metrics & Reporting:
- Develop and manage security metrics to assess risk, performance, and compliance
- Provide regular reports and insights to leadership on security effectiveness
Third-Party Vendor Management:
- Conduct assessments of external vendors to evaluate security posture.
- Track security compliance and risk mitigation strategies for third-party vendors
Program Management:
- Oversee security-related projects and initiatives, ensuring alignment with key stakeholders.
- Reduce, eliminate issues, identify dependencies in the programs, and mitigate risks.
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We are committed to creating a diverse environment and are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex, gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy, or any other basis prohibited by applicable law.
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