VP, Cybersecurity & Risk — AI-Ready Security Leader

IDC Corporate; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 166,000 - 290,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Vacation days

Holidays

Sick days

Medical coverage

Floating holidays

Volunteer day

401(k) company match

Disability insurance

Life insurance

Parental leave

Job summary

IDC's CIO organization is shifting to a pre-cleared, guardrail-based model to enable rapid AI pilots. The VP, Cybersecurity, Risk & Compliance serves as Deputy CISO, leading enterprise security strategy, architecture, and operations day to day, setting the security roadmap and removing friction to accelerate delivery.

This hands-on leadership role requires building patterns, governing AI security, and ensuring risk management across infra, apps, and data, while partnering across teams to embed

Qualifications

• 12+ years in cybersecurity with leadership experience.
• Experience securing SaaS, cloud, and AI/LLM platforms.
• Knowledge of SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR compliance frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Own enterprise cybersecurity strategy and multi-year architecture roadmap.
• Design and maintain pre-approved security patterns and guardrails.
• Lead AI platform security including defense and testing.
• Oversee identity and access management and zero-trust across applications.
• Own penetration testing program and remediation tracking.

Skills

Deputy CISO experience

Security architecture

AI/LLM security

Zero-trust

Identity management

Security engineering

Cloud security

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

CISSP or CISM certification

Tools

SAST/DAST tooling

Vulnerability scanning

Quanta Cyber Guidance

SIEM

Job description

IDC's CIO organization is shifting to a pre-cleared, guardrail-based model to enable rapid AI pilots. The VP, Cybersecurity, Risk & Compliance serves as Deputy CISO, leading enterprise security strategy, architecture, and operations day to day, setting the security roadmap and removing friction to accelerate delivery.

This hands-on leadership role requires building patterns, governing AI security, and ensuring risk management across infra, apps, and data, while partnering across teams to embed