InfoSec Data Security Specialist: Policy, Risk & Response

Interface Recruitment; Horsforth; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Interface Recruitment is seeking a skilled Information Security Specialist to strengthen our security posture across policies, processes and technical controls. You will lead risk assessments, incident response coordination and ensure adherence to IT Security policies for systems and applications.

You will implement Microsoft 365 security solutions, classify information, maintain asset registers and develop end-user guidance on cloud security tools, such as OneDrive, Teams and Outlook.

Responsibilities

• Develop and enhance security policies, processes, procedures and technical controls to strengthen security capabilities and resilience to cyber threats
• Take a proactive role in identifying security risks, mitigations and opportunities to strengthen resilience to cyber-attacks and security incidents
• Participate in the design and implementation of systems and applications to ensure that proposed solutions comply with the company's IT Security policies
• Assist with security incident management and response activities
• Interact with the IT team to provide and share technical issue resolution knowledge and deployment/adoption processes best practices
• Provide analysis of information security risk and issues of non-compliance
• Configuration and maintenance of Microsoft 365 security solutions including Azure Information Protection, Data Loss Protection, Rights Management and Cloud App Security Broker, ensuring alignment to both business requirements and security best practices
• Implementation of an automatic information classification process, that will tag documents with the correct classification, based on content, either at creation or retrospectively
• Creation and maintenance of an Information Asset Register
• Creation and implementation of Data Loss Prevention rules that protect information from being transferred using unauthorised methods or to inappropriate recipients Position Description Microsoft Information Security Specialist.
• Develop end user and technical guidance for utilising and supporting Microsoft Cloud Security solutions, for example, OneDrive, Teams, OneNote, Outlook etc.
• Employ previous experience and industry best practices to monitor, enhance and report on security posture, including dashboard reports and management information
• Gather and use cyber threat intelligence

Job description

Interface Recruitment is seeking a skilled Information Security Specialist to strengthen our security posture across policies, processes and technical controls. You will lead risk assessments, incident response coordination and ensure adherence to IT Security policies for systems and applications.

You will implement Microsoft 365 security solutions, classify information, maintain asset registers and develop end-user guidance on cloud security tools, such as OneDrive, Teams and Outlook.