Information Security Consultant
- Hove
- Full-time
- IT & Change
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Legal & General is a leading UK financial services group and major global investor. We’ve been safeguarding people’s financial futures since 1836, aiming to build a better society for the long term by investing our customers’ money in things that make life better for everyone and create value for our shareholders.
Our Group Functions provide the services that all areas of the business need. This requires a talented and diverse team behind the scenes, who enable everyone at L&G to do what they do best.
Joining us means helping to improve the lives of our customers and contributing to the success of the business every day.
We have an amazing opportunity for an Information Security Consultant to join us in Hove!
You’ll play a key role in supporting the increasing demand for Information Security skills across our Group Functions, advising on how we embed security into our business operations. You’ll also help to realise our Security Improvement programme across a number of our business areas, collaborating with a variety of colleagues from both technical and non-technical backgrounds.
What you'll be doing:
- Ensuring that projects consider security in the design by setting security needs and requirements to ensure alignment to L&G Security Policies and Standards, participating in Technology or Supplier selection as a security SME and applying threat and initial risk assessment approaches to select appropriate controls. Working with the Group wide Security Improvement Programme to ensure Group Functions services align with current Security requirements
- Reviewing the design of in-flight or existing services to conduct risk assessments, identifying and articulating security gaps against L&G Security Policies and Standards. For gaps, identifying the related risks and potential options for management – articulating options to system or business owners
- Being a source of expert Information Security advice, both to projects (i.e. consulting with Architects or Developers) and in an ad-hoc manner (responding to user queries) working closely with key stakeholders and business leaders to ensure security issues are understood and reviewing existing systems and services to prioritise security improvement activities
- Representing the Group Functions Security team to senior business stakeholders. Identifying areas where the Security team, and wider IT team, can add additional benefit and support business ambitions
- Representing the Group Functions IT team in interactions with the wider L&G Group and Security Improvement project, such as sitting on Steering Groups or Customer Engagement Workshops and ensuring Group Functions interests are input and requests for input are passed to the correct teams
- Actively working to improve the Group Functions IT Security Maturity and Capability. Suggesting enhancements to processes, updating or establishing procedures where required
Who we're looking for:
- You’ll be well versed in the Security Design of projects, such as setting requirements, reviewing architecture
- Experience with risk assessment and control selection is also key
- Knowledge of Access Control security, transportation security, secure architecture principles, cryptography and operational controls (such as back-ups, resilient design, anti-virus) are essential
- Knowledge of Threat modelling, control frameworks and Risk assessment techniques (such as ISO2700x, COBIT, COSO, ITIL and NIST Cyber Security Framework) would be great
- Perhaps you are working in consulting and you’re looking to move in-house?
Whatever your role, we reward performance and behaviour with a package that looks after all the things that are important to you. Here are some of the benefits we offer:
- The opportunity to participate in our annual, performance-related bonus plan and valuable share schemes
- Generous pension contribution
- Life assurance
- Private medical insurance (permanent employees only)
- At least 25 days holiday, plus public holidays, 26 days after 2 years’ service. There’s also the option to buy and sell holiday
- Competitive family leave
- Participate in our electric car scheme, which offers employees the option to hire a brand-new electric car through tax efficient salary sacrifice
- There are the many discounts we offer – both for our own products and at a range of high street stores and online
- In 2023, some of our workspaces were redesigned. Our offices are great spaces to connect and collaborate and have your wellbeing at the heart
Legal & General is a leading financial services group and major global investor, named Britain’s Most Admired Company in 2023, for the second year running. Rated top in our sector and top for inspirational leadership, we have a strong heritage and an exciting future.
We aim to build a better society for the long term by investing our customers’ money in things that make life better for everyone.
If you join us, you’ll be part of a welcoming culture, with opportunities to collaborate with people of diverse backgrounds, views and experiences. Guided by leaders with integrity who care about your future and wellbeing. Empowered through initiatives which support people to develop their careers and excel.
We strive to be open, mindful and inclusive, so are always willing to discussing flexible working arrangements and reasonable accommodations for candidates with specific needs.
If you’re open to find out more, we'd love to hear from you.
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