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The Role
Develop and mature an enterprise insider threat program by identifying critical assets, mapping identities and access, analyzing behavioral and technical signals, supporting investigations, and improving detection capabilities. The consultant partners with cybersecurity, HR, Legal, Privacy, and business stakeholders to assess insider risk, define protection requirements, tune security tooling, develop monitoring strategies, and produce defensible analysis and executive reporting.
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Insider Threat & Critical Asset Protection Consultant
Enterprise Cyber Security
Full Time, Remote - MA
Candidates residing within 50 miles of a MassMutual office will be expected to work a Hybrid schedule of 3 days a week in the office
The Opportunity
MassMutual is advancing an enterprise Insider Threat program focused on identifying and managing human-driven cyber risk. The Insider Threat Consultant will play a key role in developing the asset intelligence, monitoring strategies, detection capabilities, and investigative processes necessary to identify and manage insider-driven risk.
This role combines deep technical expertise, critical asset analysis, behavioral risk assessment, and investigative discipline to understand how people interact with sensitive assets and to identify patterns of activity that may indicate elevated risk. The consultant will partner with cybersecurity operations, detection engineering, HR, Legal, Privacy, and business stakeholders to align monitoring and investigative capabilities with asset sensitivity and business impact.
The role places particular emphasis on critical asset protection, including identifying what the organization's most valuable assets are, where they reside across the enterprise, who can access them, and how they support critical business processes, so that monitoring, investigative, and detection capabilities are prioritized against the assets that matter most.
This position is suited for an experienced practitioner who can operate across technical, analytical, and investigative domains while helping build and mature an enterprise-scale insider threat program.
The Team
The Insider Threat team is a specialized cybersecurity function responsible for understanding and managing the risks that trusted individuals may pose to MassMutual's critical assets, systems, information, and operations.
The team operates at the intersection of critical asset protection, identity and access management, behavioral analytics, cyber defense, investigations, and workforce risk. Team members develop the intelligence, monitoring strategies, detection capabilities, investigative processes, and analytical frameworks necessary to identify and reduce insider-driven risk.
The team partners closely with Cyber Operations, Detection Engineering, Human Resources, Legal, Privacy, Compliance, Fraud Operations, and business stakeholders to ensure insider risk is identified, assessed, and managed in a consistent, defensible, and risk-informed manner.
The Impact
The Insider Threat Consultant will:
The consultant's work will improve visibility into critical assets, strengthen understanding of user-to-asset trust relationships, increase the fidelity of insider threat detections, and help prevent compromise of the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of MassMutual's most important information and systems.
The Minimum Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
What You Can Expect at MassMutual
MassMutual offers the opportunity to do meaningful work within a purpose-driven organization that values long-term impact over short-term outcomes. In this role, you can expect:
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MassMutual is an equal employment opportunity employer. We welcome all persons to apply.
If you need an accommodation to complete the application process, please contact us and share the specifics of the assistance you need.
California residents: For detailed information about your rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), please visit our California Consumer Privacy Act Disclosures page.
Salary Range: $137,800-$180,800
Enterprise Cyber Security
Full Time, Remote - MA
Candidates residing within 50 miles of a MassMutual office will be expected to work a Hybrid schedule of 3 days a week in the office
The Opportunity
MassMutual is advancing an enterprise Insider Threat program focused on identifying and managing human-driven cyber risk. The Insider Threat Consultant will play a key role in developing the asset intelligence, monitoring strategies, detection capabilities, and investigative processes necessary to identify and manage insider-driven risk.
This role combines deep technical expertise, critical asset analysis, behavioral risk assessment, and investigative discipline to understand how people interact with sensitive assets and to identify patterns of activity that may indicate elevated risk. The consultant will partner with cybersecurity operations, detection engineering, HR, Legal, Privacy, and business stakeholders to align monitoring and investigative capabilities with asset sensitivity and business impact.
The role places particular emphasis on critical asset protection, including identifying what the organization's most valuable assets are, where they reside across the enterprise, who can access them, and how they support critical business processes, so that monitoring, investigative, and detection capabilities are prioritized against the assets that matter most.
This position is suited for an experienced practitioner who can operate across technical, analytical, and investigative domains while helping build and mature an enterprise-scale insider threat program.
The Team
The Insider Threat team is a specialized cybersecurity function responsible for understanding and managing the risks that trusted individuals may pose to MassMutual's critical assets, systems, information, and operations.
The team operates at the intersection of critical asset protection, identity and access management, behavioral analytics, cyber defense, investigations, and workforce risk. Team members develop the intelligence, monitoring strategies, detection capabilities, investigative processes, and analytical frameworks necessary to identify and reduce insider-driven risk.
The team partners closely with Cyber Operations, Detection Engineering, Human Resources, Legal, Privacy, Compliance, Fraud Operations, and business stakeholders to ensure insider risk is identified, assessed, and managed in a consistent, defensible, and risk-informed manner.
The Impact
The Insider Threat Consultant will:
- Identify and prioritize critical assets requiring enhanced monitoring and protection.
- Analyze how critical assets are accessed, used, and shared across the enterprise.
- Map relationships between identities, access privileges, business processes, and critical assets.
- Determine where critical assets reside across cloud, SaaS, on-premises, and third-party technology environments.
- Map business processes, applications, and operational dependencies that support critical assets.
- Identify exposure pathways, concentration risks, and control gaps associated with critical assets.
- Define protection requirements aligned to asset criticality and business impact.
- Analyze behavioral and technical indicators associated with insider risk.
- Identify patterns of activity that may indicate misuse or mishandling of critical assets.
- Conduct and support complex insider threat investigations.
- Correlate identity, access, asset, and behavioral signals across multiple data sources.
- Monitor and analyze deception environments and adversary interaction signals.
- Partner with detection engineering and security operations to develop and refine insider threat detection logic.
- Contribute to tuning enterprise security tooling to improve identification of insider-driven risk.
- Support development of early-warning frameworks and proactive risk identification.
- Produce clear, defensible analytical findings and case documentation.
- Support executive reporting and enterprise risk visibility.
The consultant's work will improve visibility into critical assets, strengthen understanding of user-to-asset trust relationships, increase the fidelity of insider threat detections, and help prevent compromise of the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of MassMutual's most important information and systems.
The Minimum Qualifications
- 8+ years of experience in cybersecurity, insider threat, investigations, intelligence analysis, data protection, enterprise architecture, or related disciplines.
- 2+ years of experience working cross-functionally with security, HR, Legal, Privacy, business, or investigative stakeholders.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience supporting or building an Insider Threat Program.
- Experience supporting Critical Asset Protection, Information Protection, Data Protection, or Human Risk Management initiatives.
- 2+ years of experience conducting critical asset identification, business impact analysis, operational dependency analysis, or business process mapping.
- Experience performing business process analysis, system dependency mapping, technology assessments, or enterprise architecture reviews.
- Experience building or supporting Crown Jewel Analysis, Cyber Risk, or Cyber Resilience programs.
- Ability to translate technical environments into meaningful business risk and operational impact.
- Experience conducting cyber, digital, fraud, employee misconduct, or insider threat investigations.
- Experience analyzing logs, endpoint telemetry, identity activity, access patterns, and behavioral signals.
- Hands-on experience contributing to detection use cases, monitoring strategies, investigative workflows, or security content development.
- Experience identifying, classifying, mapping, or protecting sensitive information or critical assets.
- Strong understanding of identity and access management concepts, privileged access, trust relationships, and access governance.
- Experience with SIEM, EDR, UEBA, DLP, insider risk management, identity security, and security analytics platforms.
- Experience developing, tuning, or validating detection logic across endpoint, identity, network, and data protection technologies.
- Experience analyzing user behavior and identifying anomalous or high-risk activity through the correlation of multiple data sources.
- Familiarity with deception technologies, cyber deception strategies, or adversary engagement techniques.
- Experience supporting highly regulated environments such as financial services.
- Professional certifications such as CISSP, CISM, GIAC, CDLP, GCFA, GCIH, or equivalent.
- Degree in cybersecurity, intelligence studies, psychology, criminal justice, information systems, or related field.
What You Can Expect at MassMutual
MassMutual offers the opportunity to do meaningful work within a purpose-driven organization that values long-term impact over short-term outcomes. In this role, you can expect:
- Clear areas of ownership and accountability, with work that connects directly to company and customer outcomes
- A collaborative environment where perspectives are welcomed
- Access to learning, development, and internal networks that support continuous growth and skill-building over time
- Employee-led communities and forums that foster connection, learning, and inclusion across the organization
- A culture grounded in integrity, responsibility, and stewardship-supported by a company with a strong legacy and a future-focused mindset
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MassMutual is an equal employment opportunity employer. We welcome all persons to apply.
If you need an accommodation to complete the application process, please contact us and share the specifics of the assistance you need.
California residents: For detailed information about your rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), please visit our California Consumer Privacy Act Disclosures page.
Salary Range: $137,800-$180,800
Skills Required
- 8+ years of experience in cybersecurity, insider threat, investigations, intelligence analysis, data protection, enterprise architecture, or related disciplines
- 2+ years of experience working cross-functionally with security, HR, Legal, Privacy, business, or investigative stakeholders
- Experience supporting or building an Insider Threat Program
- Experience supporting Critical Asset Protection, Information Protection, Data Protection, or Human Risk Management initiatives
- 2+ years of experience conducting critical asset identification, business impact analysis, operational dependency analysis, or business process mapping
- Experience performing business process analysis, system dependency mapping, technology assessments, or enterprise architecture reviews
- Experience building or supporting Crown Jewel Analysis, Cyber Risk, or Cyber Resilience programs
- Ability to translate technical environments into meaningful business risk and operational impact
- Experience conducting cyber, digital, fraud, employee misconduct, or insider threat investigations
- Experience analyzing logs, endpoint telemetry, identity activity, access patterns, and behavioral signals
- Hands-on experience contributing to detection use cases, monitoring strategies, investigative workflows, or security content development
- Experience identifying, classifying, mapping, or protecting sensitive information or critical assets
- Strong understanding of identity and access management concepts, privileged access, trust relationships, and access governance
- Experience with SIEM, EDR, UEBA, DLP, insider risk management, identity security, and security analytics platforms
- Experience developing, tuning, or validating detection logic across endpoint, identity, network, and data protection technologies
- Experience analyzing user behavior and identifying anomalous or high-risk activity through correlation of multiple data sources
- Familiarity with deception technologies, cyber deception strategies, or adversary engagement techniques
- Experience supporting highly regulated environments such as financial services
- Professional certifications such as CISSP, CISM, GIAC, CDLP, GCFA, GCIH, or equivalent
- Degree in cybersecurity, intelligence studies, psychology, criminal justice, information systems, or related field
MassMutual Compensation & Benefits Highlights
How does MassMutual ensure its pay and bonus plans are competitive?
MassMutual provides market-competitive salaries and generous incentive pay opportunities for all employees. Whether an employee is just starting out, transitioning to a new career, or joining us as a seasoned leader — we value their contributions.
- Competitive Salary and Bonus offerings: MassMutual’s base salaries reward and recognize employees’ experience, skills and performance. Our salary ranges are regularly benchmarked within our industry and the broader job market to ensure competitiveness. Additionally, all MassMutual employees have the opportunity to receive competitive, performance-based bonuses, either annually or more frequently.
- Annual Incentive Plan (AIP): AIP awards are discretionary and based on individual and company performance, with opportunities to earn above-target bonuses in years with exceptional results. These awards consider not only what results a person achieved, but how they achieved them, rewarding behaviors that help create a productive and welcoming work environment for everyone.
- Employees in sales roles participate in our variable incentive compensation (VIC) program instead of AIP. VIC provides incentive pay awards commensurate with results for individuals in roles that directly influence sales.
- Employees in sales roles participate in our variable incentive compensation (VIC) program instead of AIP. VIC provides incentive pay awards commensurate with results for individuals in roles that directly influence sales.
- Pay transparency and pay equity: MassMutual publishes salary ranges in job postings and is committed to promoting pay equity. This includes providing pay equity training to managers, reviewing the pay of employees who perform similar work as a standard practice when making compensation recommendations, and partnering regularly with independent external experts to check our work.
- Benefits as part of Total Rewards: MassMutual invests in every aspect of their employees’ well-being, providing a rewards package that goes far beyond a paycheck to support them physically, mentally, and financially. Their robust healthcare, retirement and protection benefits provide a range of support through all of life’s big moments — and, over the years, they have expanded their pioneering leave programs so employees can better care for themselves and the people they love.
- Health benefits: MassMutual offers a comprehensive suite of health and wellness benefits, focusing on solutions that support holistic well-being, aimed at improving access and outcomes for all, and provide flexibility to meet our employees’ and their families’ unique needs. Employees value our wide array of benefits, with one sales assistant citing “great benefits and lots of flexibility,” and another employee describing the company’s “good leadership and benefits.” (MassMutual Careers Benefits; Glassdoor). In a 2026 employee survey, one employee noted “The organization offers a wide range of programs and benefits that meaningfully support employees and foster a positive, inclusive culture.”
- Retirement and financial benefits: MassMutual provides a 401(k) plan contribution of up to 10% of eligible compensation, including up to 5% company match on employee deferrals and, for all eligible employees, a 5% annual company contribution. The company also treats eligible student loan payments like 401(k) contributions for matching purposes. The company provides a Retiree Health Reimbursement Account to eligible employees; monthly credits start at age 45. (MassMutual Careers Benefits; MassMutual 2025 Annual Report)
- Additional health programs: MassMutual offers additional benefits such as a health savings account, access to a broad network of mental health resources and providers for employees and their family members, and resources like medical and surgery decision support, healthcare navigation services, and more. All employees also have access to a Well-Being Wallet, where they can be reimbursed for up to $1,250 per year for eligible physical, mental, or financial wellness related expenses.
- Other benefits: Employees have access to an array of resources to help strengthen their overall well-being and protect the ones they love, at every stage of life. Whether growing their family, volunteering in their community, planning their legacy, or looking to save on everyday expenses like pet or auto insurance, we offer financial benefits and corporate discounts to help.
- Employee Feedback on Benefits: MassMutual conducts regular employee surveys, and benefits continuously receive positive feedback. In their 2026 survey, one employee said “...the total benefits program here at MassMutual has to be one of the best, if not the very best. It seems this company goes out of its way to make sure their employees are well taken care of." With another employee sharing “The Well-Being Wallet, education reimbursement, time off & leave programs are top notch and unlike anything I've experienced”.
- Time off & leaves: MassMutual’s flexible time-off and leave programs support employees’ well-being, help them care for loved ones, and balance personal priorities. Offerings include inclusive caregiver, bereavement, and other essential leaves; generous parental leave and financial support for adoption and surrogacy; up to 24 hours of paid volunteer time annually; and generous vacation, flexible holidays, companywide paid holidays and remote work weeks, and five “take care days.”
- External signals:
- Benefits value: Employees on external review sites regularly highlight benefits as a strength, with reviews calling out “excellent benefits,” “great benefits” and a “great benefits package.” (Glassdoor; Indeed)
- Benefits and retention: Employees surveyed on external review sites rate MassMutual’s perks and benefits an A-, with 100% saying perks and benefits play a role in staying at the company. (Comparably)
Bottom line: MassMutual supports employee wellbeing through competitive salaries and bonus opportunities, strong retirement contributions, and benefits designed to support the financial, physical, and mental well-being of employees and their families.
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