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Edwards Performance Solutions · 1 month ago

Commercial Cybersecurity Consultant

Columbia, MD

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level

7+ years exp

Edwards Performance Solutions is a company focused on enhancing secure business processes across various industries. As a Cybersecurity Consultant, you will lead assessments of client cybersecurity readiness, performing audits and analyses to ensure compliance with standards while effectively communicating findings to stakeholders.

Management Consulting

Growth Opportunities

Responsibilities

Leads comprehensive audits of security policies, infrastructure, systems, and operational technical security controls/enhancements employed within an information technology (IT) system

Oversees, evaluates, and supports the documentation, validation, assessment, and authorization processes necessary to ensure existing and new information technology (IT) systems meet the clients’ cybersecurity and risk requirements

Coordinates compliance efforts, ensuring appropriate treatment of risk, compliance, and adherence to industry regulations, legal requirements, and best practices

Designs sustainable risk management structures and compliance processes

Assists team with documentation of policies and plans to include: Security Architecture, System Security Plans, Security Assessment Reports, and Plans of Actions and Milestones (POA&Ms)

Builds reports and delivers presentations to senior level stakeholders for project status meetings

Provides subject matter expertise on matters including governance and oversight, standards and processes, tools and technology, metrics and reporting

Advocates for changes in policy supporting organizational cybersecurity initiatives

Qualification

NIST Cybersecurity FrameworkIT auditsCybersecurity assessmentsNIST 800-53Cybersecurity certificationNetwork securityClear writingTeam leadershipOrganizational skills