DLP Policy Specialist

We're seeking someone to join our Data Protection Controls team as a DLP Policy Specialist in Cyber to support the end-to-end Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policy life cycle, including policy creation, analysis, tuning and ongoing management.

In the Technology division, we leverage innovation to build the connections and capabilities that power our Firm, enabling our clients and colleagues to redefine markets and shape the future of our communities. This is a Cybersecurity Operations position, which is part of the job family responsible for monitoring, detecting, and responding to security incidents to ensure the organization's systems and data are protected from actual and potential threats or breaches.

Since 1935, Morgan Stanley is known as a global leader in financial services, always evolving and innovating to better serve our clients and our communities in more than 40 countries around the world.

What you'll do in the role:

• Contribute to the function through complex project tasks and initiatives.
• Interact regularly with team members and occasionally leadership on a range of topics.
• Policy Lifecycle Management: Design, deploy, and tune DLP policies. This includes regular hygiene reviews to audit and dismantle outdated exclusion processes, ensuring controls remain robust and relevant.
• Operational Tuning: Analyse incident telemetry to refine detection logic, significantly reducing false positives
• Stakeholder & Vendor Liaison: Collaborate with business stakeholders to translate data protection requirements into technical controls. Partner with external vendors to resolve product bugs and stay aligned with their technology roadmaps.
• Continuous Improvement: Identify opportunities to improve DLP processes, workflows, and stakeholder engagement, contribute to automation, standardization, and documentation initiatives and participate in knowledge transfer, training, and process updates.
• Compliance & Control Support: Ensure DLP operations align with internal data protection policies and external regulations and assist in remediation activities for identified policy gaps or control deficiencies.

What you'll bring to the role:

• Ability to process information, translate into plans and present summaries to stakeholders.
• Experienced understanding of business line and discipline.
• Strong understanding of DLP concepts: data classification, sensitive data types, policy rules, and enforcement
• Experience analysing alerts, tuning policies, and interpreting data protection risks
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Clear written and verbal communication-  Ability to manage multiple priorities in a control driven environment
• Collaborative Mindset: Ability to work effectively within the broader Cyber division to unblock technical hurdles and scale data protection efforts.
• At least 4 years' relevant experience would generally be expected to find the skills required for this role.

WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT FROM MORGAN STANLEY:

At Morgan Stanley, we raise, manage and allocate capital for our clients – helping them reach their goals. We do it in a way that’s differentiated – and we’ve done that for 90 years.  Our values - putting clients first, doing the right thing, leading with exceptional ideas, committing to diversity and inclusion, and giving back - aren’t just beliefs, they guide the decisions we make every day to do what's best for our clients, communities and more than 80,000 employees in 1,200 offices across 42 countries. At Morgan Stanley, you’ll find an opportunity to work alongside the best and the brightest, in an environment where you are supported and empowered. Our teams are relentless collaborators and creative thinkers, fueled by their diverse backgrounds and experiences. We are proud to support our employees and their families at every point along their work-life journey, offering some of the most attractive and comprehensive employee benefits and perks in the industry. There’s also ample opportunity to move about the business for those who show passion and grit in their work.

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Morgan Stanley is an equal opportunity employer committed to building and maintaining a workforce that is diverse in experience and background.  Our recruiting efforts reflect our strong commitment to a culture of inclusion, where individuals are hired, developed, and advanced based on their skills and talents.

Our workforce reflects a broad cross-section of the global communities in which we operate, bringing a variety of backgrounds, talents, perspectives, and experiences.

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