Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)

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Job description

Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) Rockville, Maryland Fulltime

Responsibilities

Serves under the CIO as the company's chief point-of-contact for information security
Provides guidance and oversight to corporate staff (50%) and project delivery teams (50%)
Implements, oversees, and audits cybersecurity identification, protection, detection, response, and recovery processes and systems
Creates and manages corporate security policy and controls in compliance with ISO 27001, NIST 800-53, and NIST 800-171/CMMC
Briefs CIO and other executives regularly on current cybersecurity threats and challenges, and the status of the information security management system
Reviews and contributes to information security aspects of white papers, presentations, and proposals
Sets project security standards, and reviews and briefs CIO and customers on compliance
Continuously and measurably improves information security
Travels to customer and project team locations in the DMV area regularly and other

Qualifications

15 years of demonstrated information security experience, including 5 years of experience in a CISO role of comparable scope and complexity
5 years of experience managing government information security projects preferred
7 years of federal information security experience
CISSP, CISM
Bachelor of Science (master's degree preferred) in cybersecurity or computer science
Excellent communication and people skills
Ability to travel locally (20%) and to our remote locations periodically
Ability to maintain government security clearances and project authorizations as needed
Ability to pass a background investigation

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