Freelance Operations Security Analyst

Client of Novancy One

Context

To support its business strategy and digital transformation, our client is implementing a new information security practice to ensure a coordinated response to the growing cybersecurity threat, enabling consistent decision-making across the organization. The vision for information security is to protect their stakeholders by securing their information resources, managing there cyber risks, and enabling effective and efficient business strategies fully sponsored by executives and supported by all employees.

• Duration: 6 months
• Start date: ASAP
• Location: Rabat

Services Description

Operational Security Management:

• Management and supervision of analysis for requests to open firewall rules and the feedback provided by the security department on these requests.
• Responsible for managing security incidents with criticality levels 3 and 4 (DC SE scope).
• Control the management of threat blocks, handle SPAM reporting, manage exceptions (Blacklist & Whitelist) for URLs, and process requests for proxy rule analysis.
• Manage the relationship with the Global SOC during the handling of security incidents.
• Oversee the process for managing security-related requests in SILVA / Service Now.
• Ensure the updating of use cases for critical security vulnerabilities.

Expertise required / Certification(s)

• 3+ yrs of expertise

Education:

• Minimum bachelor s degree (Bac+4) in Networks and Security
• Work environment: Fluent in English.

Certification

• A certification in information security is desirable (CISSP, CISA, CISM, GIAC, or equivalent).
• ITIL v3 certified (Minimum Foundation level).

Overall Work Expertise in the Field

• Mastery of ITIL concepts and processes (Incident Management, Change Management, Problem Management, Service Request Management, Configuration Management) > 2 years.