Job Description

In security risk management we’re looking to harness the power of industry best practice combined with driving new innovation on how we do security risk assessments and modelling. Our security risk management team is the primary owner of the strategy and practices of how we identify, track and reduce our security risk across everything we do. To support this we need to use industry best practices paired with emerging threat information to to promote risk identification, quantification, impact analysis, and modelling to ultimately drive decision making. You will not only work within the team but also cross-functionally with various teams across the organisation.The team collaborates with our Organisational Learning and Development team to develop playbooks and facilitate security training across Canonical. They might share knowledge through public presentations and industry events, and share threat intelligence with the wider community or represent Canonical in sector-specific governance bodies. What you will do in this role:Define Canonical's security risk management standards and playbooksAnalyse and improve Canonical's security risk practicesEvaluate, select and implement new security requirements, tools and practicesGrow the presence and thought leadership of Canonical security risk management practiceDevelop Canonical security risk learning and development materialsWork with Security leadership to present information and influence changeParticipate in developing key risk indicators, provide inputs to the development of key control indicators, and key performance indicators for various programsApply statistical models to risk frameworks (such as FAIR, sensitivity analysis, and others)Participate in risk management, decision-making, and collaborative discussionsLead quantified risk assessments and understand the value of qualitative data for improvements to quality and engineering processesInterpret internal or external cyber security risk analyses in business terms and recommend a responsible course of actionDevelop templates and materials to help with self-service risk management actionsMonitor and identify opportunities to improve the effectiveness of risk management processesLaunch campaigns to perform security assessments and help mitigate security risks across the companyBuild evaluation methods and performance indicators to measure efficiency of security functions and capabilities.

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Canonical is a pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source that publishes Ubuntu.

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