Senior Manager, Security Risk Management, Greater China

The candidate will be responsible for governing the vendor security risk management and cyber risk management for Asia Pacific, including conducting risk assessments and periodic re-assessments, performing application security testing and provide remediation options, and evaluations. He\She will also assist in managing relationship with Service Providers who are responsible for the actual delivery of services, managing outcomes and results, and collaborating with stakeholders across IT and business departments to develop strategies for securing company information and assets. Shares responsibility for planning, directing, and coordinating compliance activities pertaining to technology projects for a given business unit. Verifies that project goals are accomplished and in line with business objectives.

The candidate will also work with other peers to coordinate, articulate, and track actions related to developing and driving the implementation of cybersecurity risk management plans for Asia Pacific, ensuring effective cyber security risk management practices, and engaging with business unit members on a wide range of cyber security matters to achieve overall business objectives.

The candidate will also be responsible for supporting the overall Asia Pacific security program including security policy, procedures, and standards, ensuring Marriott iT documents are compliant with Marriott security policies and procedures, and reviewing documents for accuracy and completeness.

Excellent communication skills are required to effectively communicate (verbally and written) across all levels within the organization.

CANDIDATE PROFILE

Education and Experience

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems or related field or equivalent experience/certification
• 7+ years of information technology leadership experience including implementing, managing and governing security policies
• 3+ years direct work experience in third-party Risk Management
• Fluent in both Chinese and English
• One or more current information security certifications such as Certified in Risk and Information Systems Controls (CRISC), Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) or Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)

Preferred:

• A security certification such as GWAPT, GPEN, AWS Associate Architect, AWS Professional Architect, PCI experience.
• Technical knowledge in one or more of the following areas is required: Application Security, Operating System security (UNIX, Windows, Mainframe, etc.) and network security (routers, switches, firewalls)
• Technical leadership experience in an outsourced environment
• Excellent communication skills and problem-solving ability
• Experience conducting and maintaining vendor risk assessments
• Experience with reviewing and assessing security controls of Cloud service providers
• Proficient with assessing a multi-tiered system architecture (Web Server, App Server & Database)
• Knowledge of OWASP Top 10 and SANS 25.
• Working knowledge of the infrastructure and application scanning tools (such as Retina, Nessus, IBM App Scan, HP Web Inspect, Fortified on Demand, Qualys, etc.)
• Manual Web Application Testing experience.

CORE WORK ACTIVITIES

Vender Risk Management & Cyber Risk Management

• Oversee, evaluate, and support the documentation, and validation processes necessary to assure that associates, information technology systems and business processes meet the organization’s information assurance, security, and privacy requirements. Ensures appropriate treatment of risk, compliance, and assurance of internal policies and external regulations.
• Develop strategy for the vendor information security risk compliance program
• Perform security controls assessments of third-party providers – assess security architecture, adherence to the requirements, conduct application scanning and results validation
• Document controls gap analysis and risk assessment of the third-party providers
• Review controls exception requests and make risk-based approval decision
• Lead, participate or perform various infrastructure compliance initiatives and projects
• Perform Application Security Testing using (Nessus, IBM App Scan, HP Web Inspect, Fortified on Demand, Qualys, Burp, or Retina)
• Conduct and validate finding discovered during the scans
• Monitor compliance to applicable security policies and standards and report related risk issues
• Manage and administer processes and tools that enable the organization to identify, document, and track third party risks and compliance exceptions
• Conduct assessments of threats and vulnerabilities, determine deviations from acceptable configurations or enterprise or local policy, assess the level of risk, and develop and/or recommend and operationalize appropriate mitigation countermeasures.
• Provide sound advice and recommendations to leadership and staff on a variety of relevant topics within the pertinent subject domain. Advocate policy changes and make a case on behalf of the company via a wide range of written and oral work products.

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