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Practice Overview

Ankura’s well regarded and fast growing Cybersecurity Practice offers a full-service suite of information security and privacy solutions for clients, regardless of industry or size. We provide proactive preparedness, incident response, cyber resilience, and managed advisory services customized to clients’ requirements. The Cyber team is composed of leaders from the intelligence community, including former FBI and CIA personnel, private security firms, and pioneering technology companies. Our experts assess cyber risk and readiness, test and harden clients’ infrastructure, and respond instantly and decisively when threats arise. We regularly advise boards of directors, members of the C-suite, general counsel, outside counsel, IT leaders, and other stakeholders at all stages of any cyber incident.

Our cyber technologies division, part of our cyber risk practice, is looking for a hands-on penetration tester who will support our clients identify vulnerabilities in external and internal facing infrastructure and recommend remediation strategies to counter threat actors proactively.

Role Overview

As an Associate, you will be a key member of the Cybersecurity Technology & Cyber Risk Advisory team.

This role is remote, located in the United States.

Responsibilities

• Support the day-to-day activities of engagements including interaction with other team members, subject matter experts, and client contacts.

• Support all facets of client engagements, including work stream supervision, client interaction, and billing.

• Generate consistent and thorough documentation to support processes executed throughout the project lifecycle. Specific tasks may include writing up interview notes, drafting emails, creating memorandum or reports that demonstrate specific processes followed, and developing project status summaries and/or reports and metrics.

• Manage time and tasks to meet internal and external deadlines.

• Provide input into client communications, both written and oral, throughout the lifecycle of the project.

• Develop, review, and edit information security policies and procedures and provide guidance to clients regarding best practices.

• Supervise appropriate personnel including less experienced consultants, client personnel, clerical support, and others as appropriate.

• Perform and support risk, cyber, privacy and technical network assessments, including best practice audits.

• Maintain a professional image within the company and project the same to those outside of the company.

• Support vulnerability assessments and other cyber technical assessments

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Computer Science/Cyber Security/MSIS or equivalent work experience.

• 1 - 3 years of experience working in the Cybersecurity, Privacy and Compliance space.

• Knowledge of various cybersecurity frameworks such as NIST CSF, CIS Top 18

• Ability to operate a computer and other office equipment to coordinate work.

• Ability to deliver solution strategies and implementations to clients.

• Strong risk management, project management and communication skills.

• Strong attention to detail, possessing problem solving, troubleshooting and analytical reasoning skills.

• Exceptional organizational skills, to include detailed note taking abilities.

• Team player who is comfortable working in a dynamic and fast-paced environment with minimal supervision.

• Ability to manage time and tasks around intense deadlines for clients who work in a time-sensitive industry.

• Ability to interact confidently with senior management, C-suite, and lawyers/partners.

• Ability to travel

Preferred Qualifications

• Understanding of how to leverage existing security applications and appliances to address Client specific requirements.

• Development and implementation of policies and procedures.

• Familiarity with NIST or ISO frameworks and/ or risk assessment methodology.

• Knowledge and experience developing and managing key privacy deliverables such as: Data inventory registers Privacy impact assessments Privacy training.

  For individuals assigned and/or hired to work in California, Colorado, or New York, Ankura is required to include a reasonable estimate of the compensation range for this role. This compensation range is specific to the said markets and considers a broad range of factors including but not limited to skill sets, experience and training, licensure and certifications, and other business and organizational needs. The disclosed range estimate has not been adjusted for the applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the position may be filled. The range does not include additional benefits outside of salary. At Ankura, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each role. A reasonable estimate of the current base pay range is between $50,000 to $120,000; this range is not a promise of a particular wage.

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Ankura Consulting Group, LLC is an independent global expert services and advisory firm that delivers services and end-to-end solutions to help clients at critical inflection points related to conflict, crisis, performance, risk, strategy, and transformation. The Ankura team consists of more than 1,800 professionals serving 3,000+ clients across 55 countries who are leaders in their respective fields and areas of expertise. Collaborative Lateral Thinking That Deliversᵀᴹ, hard-earned experience, expertise, and multidisciplinary capabilities drive results and Ankura is unrivalled in its ability to assist clients to Protect, Create, and Recover Valueᵀᴹ. For more information, please visit, ankura.com.