Vice President, Cyber Defense

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Job Description

The Vice President, Cyber Defense is a senior cybersecurity executive responsible for helping define and execute Fannie Mae’s enterprise cybersecurity strategy. This leader will oversee a broad portfolio of cybersecurity capabilities and programs designed to protect the organization’s information assets, technology platforms, business operations, customers, and reputation.

The VP will set the strategic direction for the Threat Detection and Response, Cyber Incident Management, and cyber protection organizations. Strengthen our comprehensive cyber threat detection capabilities through a combination of internal and external resources. Oversee cyber incident response and management programs to address specific vulnerabilities and enable expeditious remediation. Ensure the relevance, viability and scalability of cybersecurity applications and systems.

This executive will play a critical role in protecting the organization’s assets, customers, reputation, and continued ability to operate. The successful candidate will strengthen the enterprise’s ability to anticipate and disrupt threats, respond decisively when incidents occur, and continuously adapt to an evolving cyber environment.

This executive will partner closely with business, technology, and risk leaders to strengthen the organization’s security posture, drive modernization initiatives, enhance cyber resilience, ensure cybersecurity technologies implemented at Fannie Mae remain viable, scalable, and aligned to business needs, drive process optimization and efficiency through automation and enhanced technologies and platform capabilities, and ensure compliance with applicable regulatory and industry requirements.

The VP will foster a culture of security, operational excellence, innovation, and continuous improvement while leveraging data, automation, and emerging technologies to improve cybersecurity outcomes across the enterprise.

• Drive successful detection and containment of cybersecurity events that threaten the security of Fannie Mae Systems.

• Ensures the availability of comprehensive cyber threat detection capabilities while leveraging external technical, forensic, and investigative resources as needed.

• Directs strategic intelligence activities to identify cyber threats and vulnerabilities relevant to Fannie Mae.

• Oversee cyber incident response and management programs, partnering with leaders across the organization to address specific vulnerabilities.

• Oversee the development and operationalization of strategies for maturing the enterprise cyber security posture to meet or exceed industry standards in a complex, on-prem/multi-cloud environment.

• Provides oversight of cybersecurity risk management activities, including audits, reviews and assessments of our cyber security program and manages audit issue remediation.

• Partners with corporate risk functions to ensure alignment of efforts and effective implementation of adopted frameworks as well as compliance with policies, standards and regulatory requirements with Lead cybersecurity governance and control health monitoring sustainment program to gauge cyber response readiness by orchestrating table-top exercises and coordinating critical patch procedures as well as provide support for executive Information Security initiatives.

• Applies an understanding of cloud security technologies and models (AWS shared responsibility model, SaaS, etc.) to ensure the relevance, viability and scalability of cybersecurity applications and systems. Provides leadership and direction in the innovation of bleeding edge cybersecurity technology.

• Provide leadership and direction in the adoption of best-in-class cybersecurity technologies.

• Drive process improvement through strategic continuous improvement plans; transform legacy manual processes using modern automation and technology.

• Effectively manage and coordinate changes by communicating cyber strategies, plans, and operational risks in business terms, working with key stakeholders to align priorities and ensure seamless and consistent execution.

Required Experience

• Significant progressive leadership experience in…