Associate Information Security Director

Associate Information Security Director

Johnston

Exp 2-5 years

Degree Bachelors

Relo

Bonus

Job Description

Our company combines innovation and technology to produce exceptional equipment and services that delight our customers. We are a world leader in providing advanced products and services and are committed to the success of customers whose work is linked to the land – those who cultivate, harvest, transform, enrich and build upon the land to meet the world’s dramatically increasing need for food, fuel, shelter and infrastructure.

Since 1837, our company has delivered innovative products of superior quality built on a tradition of integrity. We make our company a great place to work through an emphasis on work-life balance and a values-based culture that encourages professional development and community involvement.

As a global organization with vast technological resources, our company can offer IT professionals a virtual world of opportunity. Whether your interest is application development, infrastructure, architecture or project management, our company can offer you challenges that will exceed your expectations.

What You'll Do

Our company is located in Johnston, IA, the Associate Information Security Director is the senior corporate security professional servicing the business unit. This role is the primary strategic voice to effectively negotiate the intersection of business pursuits, threat landscape, and Deere's centralized cybersecurity services. The role demands strong strategic focus, effective communication and collaboration skills, executive presence and a deep understanding of the finance industry.

The Associate Information Security Director role encompasses key stakeholder relationships with Legal, Human Resources, Compliance, Information Technology, Audit, Supply Management and Executive Leadership functions. Additionally, you will:

• Provide critical leadership related to strategy, regulatory compliance; demand planning, project prioritization, specification and deployment of new services and operational oversight for all cybersecurity activities across our company.

• Act as the single point to accountability and delivery for President, General Counsel and IT Director.

• Be responsible for the oversight of Deere's Global Information Security (GSEC) metrics in service and soliciting & obtaining resources, both CORP GSEC to achieve approved targets.

• Develop and implement information security strategy, assuring alignment with the GSEC security strategy.

• Broker existing GSEC services to execute risk assessments against locations, infrastructure, applications, systems, and services.

• Coordinate with GSEC and Enterprise Security & Preparedness organization (ES&P) to address incident response and assure timely, accurate concise communications to key business leaders.

• Provide leadership and expertise to the Senior Leadership team on core functional business processes ensuring that key security priorities are addressed.

• Ensure that all business activities are performed in a secure and compliant manner, meeting all Deere internal and external standards and controls.

• Participate in the strategic planning and budgeting processes.

• Build and leverage existing finance industry relationships to identify industry leading practices, stay current on industry threats and benchmark cybersecurity services and performance.

• Manage cybersecurity architecture resources to:
Assure compliance with existing policies and standards;
Maintain security posture of existing infrastructure and applications;
Engineer security into lifecycle of new infrastructure, applications, products and services.

• Manage cybersecurity risk and liability related to divestitures, acquisitions and joint-ventures.

• Partner with Supply Management and Legal organizations to review vendor contracts and suppliers.

• Provide subject matter expertise and cybersecurity leadership to our Enterprise Risk Committees.

• Partner with GSEC, ES&P, Legal, Compliance, Supply Management and business leaders to establish, deploy, and enforce cybersecurity policies and procedures.

• Provide oversight to global IT improvement projects…