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** VIAVI (NASDAQ: VIAV) has a 90+ year history of technical innovations that have evolved to keep pace and address our customer’s most pressing business issues. We make equipment, software, and systems that help to plan, deploy, certify, monitor, and optimize all kinds of networks - like those for mobile phones, service providers, large businesses and data centers. VIAVI is also a leader in high performance thin film optical coatings and engineered diffusers, providing light management solutions to anti-counterfeiting, consumer electronics, automotive, defense and instrumentation markets.
We are the people behind the products that help keep the world connected – at home, school, work, at play, and everywhere in between. VIAVI employees are fierce about supporting customer success and we welcome people who bring their best every day to the company - to question, to collaborate and to push for solutions that will delight our customers.
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**** Senior Director, IT Security
**** Job Summary
** VIAVI is seeking a visionary and execution-oriented Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) to lead and transform the company’s global information security program. Reporting directly to the CIO and serving as a key advisor to the cybersecurity steering committee, the CISO will own VIAVI’s enterprise security strategy, architecture, operations, and culture. The ideal candidate brings deep technical expertise, a track record of building mature security programs in complex global environments, and the executive presence to drive security-first thinking across engineering, cloud, product, and go-to-market functions.
** Key Responsibilities
**** Strategic Leadership
*** Define and execute the company’s global information and cybersecurity strategy aligned with business objectives, risk appetite, and growth plans.
* Serve as the primary cybersecurity advisor to the CIO, executive leadership team, and Board of Directors on cyber resilience, threat landscape, and program maturity.
* Partner with the CTO, CIO, CFO, General Counsel, and other senior leaders to align security investments with enterprise strategy, product direction, and operational priorities.
* Embed security into VIAVI’s products and AI initiatives, extending secure-by-design principles to hardware, firmware, and software offerings.
* Champion a security-first culture across VIAVI’s global workforce through training, clear policies, and executive engagement.
** Security Governance, Risk and Compliance
*** Lead enterprise-wide security governance, policy development, standards, and oversight mechanisms.
* Own and maintain the enterprise cyber risk register, including identification, prioritization, treatment, and reporting of material information security risks.
* Establish and maintain security programs aligned to leading frameworks and regulatory requirements, including ISO 27001, CMMC/DFARS, FedRAMP, EU CRA, UK CEP, and other applicable standards.
* Develop metrics and reporting to assess security program effectiveness, risk reduction, compliance status, and operational maturity.
* Establish and lead a comprehensive third-party cybersecurity risk management program to assess, monitor, and mitigate risks associated with vendors, cloud providers, SaaS platforms, outsourced service providers, and strategic technology partners.
** Security Operations, Incident Management & Business Continuity
*** Lead security operations across monitoring, detection, triage, escalation, containment, and remediation activities.
* Oversee and optimize the company’s use of SIEM, DLP, endpoint security, vulnerability management, attack surface management, zero trust, SSE and related technologies
* Ensure strong cloud…