Senior Information Security Officer; Qatarization

The Senior Information Security Officer is responsible for establishing and maintaining a corporate-wide information security management program to ensure that information assets are adequately protected. This position is responsible for identifying, evaluating, and reporting on information security risks in a manner that meets compliance and regulatory requirements, and aligns with and supports the risk posture of the enterprise.

• Facilitate information security governance through the implementation of a hierarchical governance program, including the support of all necessary reporting requirements and metrics for the Bank Operational Risk – Information Security Steering Committee or any corresponding advisory board requirements.
• Develop, maintain and publish up-to-date information security policies, standards, and guidelines. Oversee the approval, training, and dissemination of security policies and practices.
• Create, communicate and implement a risk-based process for vendor risk management, including the assessment and treatment for risks that may result from partners, consultants, and other service providers.
• Create and manage information security and risk management awareness training programs for all employees, contractors, and approved system users.
• Work directly with the business units to facilitate IT risk assessment and risk management processes and work with stakeholders throughout the enterprise on identifying acceptable levels of residual risk.
• Provide regular reporting on the current status of the information security program to enterprise risk teams, senior business leaders, and the board of directors as part of a strategic enterprise risk management program.
• Define and facilitate the information security risk assessment process, including the reporting and oversight of treatment efforts to address negative findings.
• Facilitate a metrics and reporting framework to measure the efficiency and effectiveness of the program, facilitate appropriate resource allocation, and increase the maturity of the security.
• Understand and interact with related disciplines through committees to ensure the consistent application of policies and standards across all technology projects, systems and services, including, but not limited to, privacy, risk management, compliance, and business continuity management.
• Understand the requirements of data security governance and ensure to develop and implement the process requirements for both data classification and data privacy in the bank covering all bank stakeholders

• Provide strategic risk guidance for IT projects, including the evaluation and recommendation of technical controls.
• Coordinate information security and risk management projects with resources from the IT organization and business unit teams.

• Coordinate measures and report on the technical aspects of security management.
• Manage outsourced vendors that provide information security functions for compliance with contracted service-level agreements.
• Manage and coordinate operational components of incident management, including detection, response, and reporting.
• Maintain a knowledge base comprising a technical reference library, security advisories and alerts, information on security trends and practices, and laws and regulations.
• Manage the day-to-day activities of threat and vulnerability management, identify risk tolerances, recommend treatment plans and communicate information about residual risk.
• Ensure audit trails, system logs, and other monitoring data sources are reviewed periodically and comply with policies and audit requirements.
• Design, coordinate and oversee security-testing procedures to verify the security of systems, networks, and applications, and manage the remediation of identified risks.
• Provide advisory and keep up to date on Information security threats, technologies and techniques, and ensure the threat landscape is understood and raised with the concerned departments for remediation.
• Provide Advisory and consultation to IT and IT Security to ensure that security is factored into the evaluation, selection, installation and configuration of hardware, applications and software
• Research, evaluate, design, test, recommend or plan the implementation of new or updated information security hardware or software, and analyse its impact on the existing environment; provide technical and managerial…