Cybersecurity Incident Response Lead

Job Description THE AGENCY Creative Artists Agency (CAA) is a leading entertainment and sports agency, with global expertise in filmed and live entertainment, digital media, publishing, sponsorship sales and endorsements, media finance, consumer investing, fashion, brand management and consumer product licensing, and philanthropy. Distinguished by its culture of collaboration and exceptional client service, CAA’s diverse workforce identifies, innovates, and amplifies opportunities for the people and organizations that shape culture and inspire the world.

The trailblazer of the agency business, CAA was the first to build a sports business, create an investment bank, launch a venture fund, found technology start-up companies, establish a philanthropic arm, build a business in China, form brand marketing services division, and launch a family office advisory practice, among other innovations. Named Most Valuable Sports Agency by Forbes for 10 consecutive years, CAA represents more than 3,000 of the world’s top athletes in football, baseball, basketball, hockey, and soccer, in addition to coaches, on-air broadcasters, and sports personalities and works in the areas of property sales and sponsor ships, media advisory, brand consulting, venue development and strategic advisory, and executive search.

Founded in 1975, CAA is headquartered in Los Angeles, and has offices in New York, London, Nashville, Munich, Shanghai, Beijing, Chicago, Washington, D.C., Singapore, Toronto, Denver, Charlotte, Jacksonville, and Atlanta, among other locations globally.  For more information, please visit .   OVERVIEW Executive level position reporting to the Director of Cyber Threat Management & Incident Response, this is a hands-on senior security position working within the Information Security group and with the internal IT department.

This position’s core focus is to ensure consistent, measurable end to end triage and closure of security related events. The successful candidate will work to assess, develop, and deploy detection capabilities and processes ensuring enterprise systems and data are protected, serving as the Incident Response Lead for European and Pacific regions of the organisation. We are looking for candidates who have a passion for cyber security, threat detection, threat hunting, and incident response.

You will be a key part of our efforts to build and support a defensible environment where we are able to detect, contain and respond quickly to threats and compromise in ways that serve to enable the business needs of a highly collaborative organisation. The environment is fast-paced and commonly on the leading edge of technology, including early adoption of various cloud services along with the challenges of integrating those services into our security practice.

Responsibilities to include:
Serve as the executive point of contact during major international security incidents. Assist with the defining and execution of the organisation’s global incident response strategy and roadmap as it pertains to the international areas of operation. Lead and mentor the incident response teams, fostering a high-performance, collaborative culture. Coordinate with both technical and business stakeholders during the incident response process.

Conduct day-to-day Incident Response activities as well as additional SOC related detection and response activities as required for a global environment. Proactively monitor Cyber Threat Intelligence resources to serve as the basis for searching and identifying relevant signs of security incidents or anomalous behaviour (Threat Hunting).  Design, engineer, and implement runbooks and playbooks for Incident Response. Develop and implement strategies to contain and limit the impact of security incidents.

Perform host based, cloud based, network based, memory, or log analysis and/or forensics in support of Incident Response investigations.  Influence and play an active role in CAA’s Security Incident Response efforts, working to identify and mitigate information security threats. Review security information, event logs, and reports, provide findings and recommendations for…