Summary
Fortinet is hiring a Senior Security Consultant for its FortiGuard Proactive Services in Kuwait City. The role leads customer engagements, assesses incident response readiness and security posture, delivers tabletop exercises and training, and helps customers develop incident response plans and playbooks. It also involves reviewing security programs, recommending improvements, preparing reports and presentations, and supporting the development of proactive services. Applicants should have consulting and customer-facing experience, knowledge of cybersecurity frameworks and incident response, and a relevant bachelor's degree or at least five years of experience in cybersecurity assessments and incident response.
The posting
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We are looking for a Senior Security Consultant – FortiGuard Proactive Services to work in a dynamic and exciting new position reporting to the Director of our FortiGuard Security Consulting Services. In this very hands-on customer facing role the consultant’s main objective is to deliver Fortinet’s proactive consulting services ensuring the customer is better prepared to deal with a cyber security incident. Leveraging skills and experience in delivering security assessments and incident response, the consultant will be responsible for incident response readiness assessments helping to identify gaps, deliver table top exercises that are designed to test an organization’s incident response plan and assisting in identifying security gaps in tools or processes, and assist customer organization’s in the development of incident response playbooks that are part of an organization’s larger Incident Response Plan. As a secondary objective the consultant will assist with continued development of our current and future assessment type services, and work closely with the sales teams.
To be successful in this role the candidate must possess strong consulting skills, technical skills and able to work under tight timelines.
Responsibilities:
- Lead customer facing proactive services engagements
- Develop and deliver tabletop exercises to customers
- Perform readiness assessments on customers’ security posture and Incident Response Plan
- Assist in the development of customer Incident Response Plans and playbooks.
Continue to focus on the maturation of proactive services
Deliver Response Trainings to customers
Stay current with cyber security compliance, standards and framework revisions including NIST CSF, ISO/IEC27001, CIS, PCI, HIPPA, etc.
Review current security programs and define the steps needed for meeting the applicable cybersecurity and information assurance instructions
Assist in the development and recommendations of network topologies
Develop complete and informative reports and presentations for both executive and technical audience
Required Skills:
- Ability to communicate effectively
- Experience interfacing with customers
- Experience building and delivering table top exercises
- Knowledgeable of multiple cyber security compliance frameworks and standards
- Knowledgeable in the development and use of incident response playbooks
- Experience with vulnerability assessments and cyber security audits
- Ability to assess and implement various security controls
- Understanding of incident response processes and tools
- Experience with delivering educational services and trainings
- A solid understanding of Active Directory and how to secure is a plus
- Strong knowledge of operating system internals and endpoint security experience.
- Able to communicate with both technical and executive personnel
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills a must
- Highly motivated, self-driven and able to work both independently and within a team
Education:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science or related field
- Or 5+ years’ experience with cyber security assessments and incident response