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Title and Summary

Senior Security Monitoring and Response Analyst

Overview
The Vocalink Security Operations Centre (SOC) is looking for a Senior Security Monitoring and Response analyst, specialising in Insider Threat and Data Loss Prevention, to join a small team operating and improving controls to secure our information assets, advancing the insider threat program, to identify risks to information and provide prevention and detection capabilities using a range of technologies.

Role/Responsibilities
•\tEnhances Vocalink’s insider threat capabilities, protecting our employees, the business, our customers and services.
•\tOperates and evolves response plans for escalated issues, involving stakeholders and functions that are key to successfully concluding incidents.
•\tOperates and evolves DLP and insider threat focused controls to identify policy / compliance violations, and proportionate escalation pathways.
•\tMonitoring of key technologies used to identify and alert on potential data loss and insider threat events.
•\tContributes to an intelligence-led approach to design-out risks from data loss and insider threat, and to improve business processes.
•\tResponds to data loss and insider threat events escalated from any source.
•\tMaintains accurate recording of insider threat investigations.
•\tEngages with compliance and HR functions, and wider security stakeholders, ensuring successful conclusion of investigations.
•\tInforms lessons learned, recommending mitigations and controls to reduce risk.
•\tReports any security control or policy gaps and identifies areas for wider security improvements.
•\tReports performance metrics for the insider threat function.

All About You
In this role you will need to be able to do, and have experience of, the following:
•\tExperience within an insider threat or allied function
•\tExperience in the implementation of monitoring strategies to identify increases in risk, and the factors that influence the increases.
•\tExperience of Data Loss Prevention and File Integrity Monitoring technologies, including the creation of technical controls, playbooks & process documentation, as well as handling the outputs of these to successful conclusion. Experience working in a Security Operations Centre is desirable.
•\tExperience in the identification of risks presented by a workforce with privileged access to a range of assets is desirable.
•\tExperience with SIEM technology, proposing use cases and dashboards to enhance monitoring capabilities.
•\tExperience using various network / security technologies during security investigations is highly desirable.
•\tUnderstanding of access management processes is highly desirable.
•\tRelevant security certifications desirable.

Corporate Security Responsibility

All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and, therefore, it is expected that every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security and must:

Abide by Mastercard’s security policies and practices;

Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed;

Report any suspected information security violation or breach, and

Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard’s guidelines.