Specialist: Cyber Secure By Design

1 week ago


Midrand, Gauteng, South Africa Vodafone Full time

Role purpose:


The primary purpose of the role is to work within a team of Secure by Design and Security Architecture specialists, in collaboration with the Privacy and Business Risk Teams to Perform Secure by Design Assessments against Vodacom policies and standards.


In performing this role,
you will:
Identify potential cyber security risks for new products, services and operations and identify controls to minimise, mitigate or remove those privacy and security risks;
Review Design and implementation of the identified controls to ensure they are built into the product (at Design & Build stages);
Provide assurance that privacy and security controls have been implemented before the product goes "live" and product complies with Vodacom/Vodafone Security requirements and applicable laws (at Test & Go-Live stages);
Assess security and privacy risks arising from changes to existing live products that impact the processing of personal data (In-Life); and
Ensuring security and privacy risks are addressed when decommissioning these products (Decommissioning).


You will also be required to drive the delivery of Cyber Security strategy and maturity improvement or risk reduction initiatives into the business unit(s) to which you will be assigned, monitor progress against agreed targets with the objective of safeguarding Vodacom Infrastructure and customer data from Cyber threat actors.

This role will involve working with Busines unit, Cyber and IT stakeholders in Vodacom South Africa to drive out Cyber Security baseline requirements - Some of these responsibilities may extend to collaboration with Group Cyber Security and other operating companies to ensure that cyber security controls are consistently applied across markets.


Your responsibilities will include:

Provide technology security assurance, guidance and support to high profile projects,
Ensure security is embedded in IT System and Network Infrastructure (Mobile, IS and Enterprise) across the Vodacom Group
Defining, implementing, and efficiently maintaining technology security controls and requirements
Ensure timely delivery of technology security assurance and support for projects, products and services.
Ensure compliance with Legal and Regulatory requirements
Support Technology Security awareness programs and educational efforts within the business unit to which you are asssigned
Provide accurate and timely reporting of technology security risks identified during secure by design assessments, project engagement and propose remediation and mitigation options in line with policy and good practice
Fulfil key customers' obligations and stakeholders' expectation
Ensure financial efficiency in Tech Security Solutions
Ensure compliance with the applicable legislative and regulatory interpretation and corporate risk appetite;
Engage with the stakeholders on compliance to control effectiveness and deficiencies in the design and operating effectiveness of information security controls, design and recommend opportunities for continuous improvement;
Manage and conduct formal information security risk analyses, reviews, tests, audits and/or self-assessments;
Design appropriate remedial actions for identified risks, drive remediation of findings and management of risks and exemptions;
Assist to compile a report of information security risks in an appropriate way for different audiences;
Develop, manage and maintain an information security incident management capability;
Collaborate with various key stakeholders, and provide information security advice to stakeholders


Together with CSO team advise on Security decisions for the Agile Team to which you have been assigned and guide the identified Security Champions to imbed security within the CI/CD pipeline.


This will include coaching or guiding them:
Coach identified Security Champions to gain practical cyber and devsecops understanding and knowledge
Coach Product Owners and all team members on the importance of security requirements
Support product and service development with Secure by Design expertise
Alert Cyber Security to security incidents following Vodafone Standards for reporting.
Report on risk and compliance levels for relevant product and services
Provide input into the definition of the Secure by Design blueprints, patterns and design principles to support product and service development
Give teams recommendations for remediation of vulnerabilities or weaknesses in products or services
Organise chapter meetings/scrums with Security Champions using Agile tool sets and report back to Manager Cyber Secure by Design.
Convert security requirements into stories based on needs.
Give overall guidance on different security activities across Agile teams

3 year Technical Diploma/Degree in Information Security, Computer Science or Engineering
An industry certification. The CISSP is strongly preferred, however CCSP, OSCP, CISM, CISA or other relevant certifications will be considered. Security/IT

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