Senior Information Security Consultant, Preparedness

We’re building a relationship-oriented bank for the modern world. We need talented, passionate professionals who are dedicated to doing what’s right for our clients.

At CIBC, we embrace your strengths and your ambitions, so you are empowered  team members have what they need to make a meaningful impact and are truly valued for who they are and what they contribute.

To learn more about CIBC, please visit CIBC.comWhat You’ll Be Doing You will be joining a highly regarded Offensive Security & Preparedness team and build something incredible within Cyber Security. You will continue building an emerging Cyber Threat Exposure Preparedness and Cyber Range programs within the bank and help our partner lines of business achieve real security effectiveness. As a Preparedness specialist you will be working closely with your Offensive Security team members as well as partners in Cyber Threat Exposure Management, Cyber Security Operations as well as threat intelligence, and many other lines of business to develop and deliver preparedness exercises from a variety inputs.

In collaboration with your team, you will plan, execute and recommend improvements to CIBC’s overall security and control environments for high risk applications and services.

At CIBC we enable the work environment most optimal for you to thrive in your role. You’ll have the flexibility to manage your work activities within a hybrid work arrangement where you’ll spend 1-3 days per week on-site, while other days will be remote.

How You’ll Succeed Consulting – Your activities will be focused on improving and maturing the cyber preparedness exercises and cyber range program within the bank to better secure our business. Your ability to explain the importance and benefits of good security practices and consult with a wide variety of roles and lines of business across the bank will help accelerate our mandate to improve and mature our security posture.

You will interact and experiment with a wide range of security technologies – both currently in use and in investigation at CIBC – to understand and describe how they can be used to detect and stop threats.

Coordination – You will be responsible for coordinating with the security assessment, response and intelligence teams to propose, plan and coordinate preparedness exercises. In this role you will own and manage the tabletop exercise function from beginning to end (exercise planning and delivery – recommendation generation – socialization with responsible teams – remediation handoff).Cyber Preparedness – You will be at the center of helping CIBC practice and improve it's response to real world threats.

By accelerating the time to improve capability/processes you will be driving significant benefits in the reduction of our attack surface and overall security maturity. In order to be successful you will need to interface and collaborate with internal and external teams so you can propose and consult on needed remediations. You will drive continuous improvement by engaging security teams from red teaming, incident response, threat hunting, and many other lines of business with table top exercises and other assessment activities.

Who You Are You can demonstrate experience in driving improvements and recommendation initiatives both within a security organization and across different lines of business. You have at least 2-3 years of overall Cyber Security and controls experience. You bring 5 years of consulting and program experience within a security operation or analysis function, and an understanding of how to leverage it for enterprise defense.

It’s an asset if you have familiarity with Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) activity, hold either a CISSP or CEH certification and have familiarity with Qualys EASM, Microsoft's Security Exposure Management , and/or Safe Breach or similar BAS/CART tools.

You give meaning to data. You enjoy investigating complex problems, and providing truth and clarity in the face of the hypothetical. You're confident in your ability to communicate technical and cyber security concepts in an impactful way.

You act like an owner. You thrive when you're empowered to take the…