Information Security Analyst

A major company based in Cheltenham urgently requires an experience Information Security Analyst to perform the following duties:

To support operational security and business continuity requirements through project governance and process review.
To provide support in ensuring appropriate level of governance.
To support and co-ordinate Business Continuity activities for the company, ensuring staff are informed and equipped to undertake their role.
To measure operational security requirements against appropriate standards.

PRINCIPAL RESPONSIBILITIES

Support review/ update of Information Security policies and standards.
Support risk reviews and assessments for all technical products and security services.
To help support security incidents within the governance models and provide schemes and vulnerability assessments.
To manage the organizational information security and business continuity risk logs and provide recommendations.
To maintain organisational information security strategy and contribute to cross-company Security Forum.
To support staff awareness of the Company Business Continuity framework.
To co-ordinate and support Business Continuity Testing
To ensure that each business continuity and recovery plan is updated by the plan owner on a regular basis (including Aide-Memoire) and the information is readily available.
To provide active assistance to the CMT in the event of an incident.

SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE EXPERIENCE

Essential:

Planning and monitoring of security policy effectiveness.
Planning and design of BCM exercises
Mentoring multi-disciplined teams
Ability to report on progress to Information Security Manager
Effective communication skills.
Ability to use initiative to analyse, identify resolve problems within area of expertise.
Knowledge of current industry best practices and standards, including ISO 27001 and BS 25999.
Understanding of corporate security issues and risk mitigation techniques
Business related degree, management qualification or equivalent professional experience.
Substantial experience of the software development process (analysis, development, testing, etc)
Appropriate experience in Security and BCM Management.
Appropriate experience in leading and motivating a team of technical and non-technical people.

Desirable:

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