CISO: Lead Security & Risk for Media & Events

Cyberjobs; États-Unis; À distance; USD 180 000 - 280 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

SecurityWeek is seeking a Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) to lead and strengthen the company's information security program. This hands-on leadership role will set security priorities, advise executive leadership, and collaborate with editorial, events, sales, marketing, and operations teams to embed safeguards into daily operations.

The CISO will manage risk in a fast-moving media and events environment while ensuring reliable publishing and event delivery, protection of editoral

Qualifications

• Significant experience leading information security, cybersecurity, or risk programs.
• Experience protecting cloud services, SaaS, websites, and sensitive data.
• Ability to explain security risks and tradeoffs to executives and nontechnical colleagues.
• Experience developing security policies and controls that work across business and technical teams.

Responsabilités

• Develop and maintain a company-wide information security strategy, risk program, policies, and standards suited to the organization's size and operations.
• Assess security risks across business systems, cloud services, endpoints, networks, websites, and third-party platforms; prioritize remediation with system owners.
• Strengthen identity and access management, including MFA, least-privilege access, and account lifecycle controls.
• Oversee security monitoring, vulnerability management, patching, endpoint protection, secure configuration, backups, and recovery planning.
• Protect editorial systems and workflows, including CMS, newsroom accounts, unpublished material, and sensitive communications.
• Safeguard data across registration, CRM, marketing, analytics, payment, webinar, and event platforms.
• Lead incident preparedness and response, coordinating investigation, containment, recovery, and communications.
• Maintain business continuity and recovery plans for essential services including publishing and events.
• Evaluate security and privacy risks in vendors and partners; address contractual, data protection, and security requirements.
• Advise leadership on legal, regulatory, privacy, and contractual obligations, and on security investments and risk acceptance.
• Build security awareness through training and exercises tailored to employees' roles.
• Track and report meaningful security measures, risks, incidents, and remediation progress to executives.
• Support customer and partner security reviews and assurance requests.

Connaissances

Leadership in information security

IAM / ID management

Incident response

Vulnerability management

Data protection

Business continuity

Vendor risk management

Executive communication

Security strategy

Description du poste

SecurityWeek is seeking a Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) to lead and strengthen the company's information security program. This hands-on leadership role will set security priorities, advise executive leadership, and collaborate with editorial, events, sales, marketing, and operations teams to embed safeguards into daily operations.

The CISO will manage risk in a fast-moving media and events environment while ensuring reliable publishing and event delivery, protection of editoral