Senior Manager, Cyber Defense

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Summary:

This role will serve as the lead for BMS’ Attack Surface Management (ASM) function, including the cloud web application firewall (CWAF). This individual will coordinate and monitor day-to-day program activities, as well as provide thought leadership and support for ASM special projects, analytics, and strategic roadmap. ​The ideal candidate will seamlessly integrate with the Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) team, translating intelligence products into timely and actionable insights that improve BMS’ security posture in a rapidly evolving threat landscape. They will effectively communicate and drive remediation activities with a diverse set of cross-functional stakeholders, including infrastructure, platform, network, and application owners. In addition, this role will own the end-to-end architecture, engineering, and support of the CWAF and provide technical guidance and direction to a team of WAF engineers.

Key Responsibilities:

• Serve as technical point person, provide oversight, and drive activities for blended team (FTE, managed service providers) for day-to-day ASM operations.

• Implement, run, and maintain ASM tools, including open-source intelligence (OSINT), external attack surface management (EASM), and security ratings tools, to monitor BMS’ attack surface, assess technical and reputational risk, and prioritize remediation activities.

• Assess new and emerging threats and vulnerabilities, provide recommendations, technical guidance, and solutions for remediation or mitigation.

• Design and deliver analytics to demonstrate ongoing operational status and program maturity.

• Innovate and automate existing ASM processes to drive operational efficiency.

• Consult with internal teams (Security Operations, Engineering, Endpoint, Network, etc.)  to integrate defensive tactics and controls for identified vulnerabilities and threats.

• Provide comprehensive service to BMS’ mission & business critical application teams, including onboarding, proactive monitoring, configuration, and integration assistance in CWAF. 

• Act as a trusted advisor, providing a high quality of troubleshooting, investigation, and consultation when requested by application teams.

• Research & develop solutions for complex application integrations with CWAF.

• Provide program leadership and technical guidance and direction to WAF engineering team.

• Update program documentation (e.g. playbooks, runbooks) on a regular basis in alignment with organizational and technology changes.

• Occasional after-hours escalation and on-call responsibilities can be expected.

Qualifications & Experience:

• 6+ years of relevant work experience.

• Experience designing and implementing Attack Surface Management strategies, including robust use of OSINT and EASM tools.

• Ability to rapidly consume and evaluate current threat and vulnerability information from open-source and industry sources, assess risk to the enterprise, and identify optimal remediation or mitigation strategies.

• Experience performing vulnerability scans, analyzing configurations, and hardening networks, operating systems, applications, databases, Active Directory, and other technology components both on-premises and in the cloud.

• Demonstrated analytic expertise and ability to think critically and logically in a dynamic, fast-paced environment and ambiguous situations.

• Excellent oral and written communication skills.

• Familiarity with common web technology concepts such as HTML, JavaScript, JSON, and REST APIs.

• Familiarity with web application security principles and core concepts of firewall rule configuration.

• Domain knowledge of networking technologies and protocols – OT knowledge is a plus.

• Experience with AWS or Azure is a plus.

• Imperva CWAF experience and certifications are a plus.

• Experience working on or leading global teams is a plus.

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