• Category: Information Technology
• Location: Unknown City, Maryland, United States of America Unknown City, Virginia, United States of America
• Clearance Type: Top Secret
• Telecommute: Yes- May Consider Full Time Teleworking for this position
• Shift: Days (United States of America)
• Travel Required: Yes, 10 of the Time
• Positions Available: 1

The Strategic Counterintelligence Manager is responsible for developing, implementing, and overseeing a comprehensive (all-source) insider risk management program across Northrop Grumman’s global environment. The PM will lead the analytic, investigative, and information protection missions of the Northrop Grumman Strategic Counterintelligence Team within the Cybersecurity organization. This role is responsible for developing long range strategies necessary to meet highly dynamic corporate and external risk environments. The PM must also be highly engaged cross functionally advising senior Cybersecurity, Stakeholder, and Corporate leadership on program direction, strategy, and the identification of priority growth areas.

The StratCI Manager leads a team of experienced technical professionals to identify, assess, and mitigate risks associated with Northrop Grumman insiders (employees, contractors, and business partners) to protect the organization’s employees, assets, intellectual property, and reputation. This mission scope includes Data Loss Prevention; information classification and protection; Cyber Threat Intelligence and Counterintelligence; and proactive Insider Threat risk assessment, mitigation, and training. This role is 100 virtual/work from home. The work location could change based upon business conditions.

Leads efforts to research and evaluate technical and all-source intelligence with specific emphasis on network operations. Analyzes network events to determine the impact on current operations and conduct all-source research to determine advisory capability and intent. Correlates threat data from various sources. Develops and maintains analytical procedures to meet changing requirements and ensure maximum operations. Collects data using a combination of standard intelligence methods and business processes.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Develop and execute a comprehensive program strategy for insider risk management, lead technology and personnel development efforts, and maintain effective operations of all technical controls and tools under the Strategic Counterintelligence Team’s purview.
• Design, execute, and oversee the insider risk program, developing and enhancing all associated technical controls and policy supporting inside threat detection and counterintelligence analysis.
• Collaborate with Security, HR, Employee Relations, Ethics, Law Department, Privacy, Network Engineering, International Programs, and within Cybersecurity to develop program strategy, grow partnerships, handle investigations and drive remediation activities.
• Lead a team of experienced technical analysts in the development of mitigation strategies that include leveraging technical tools and HR, Security and Cybersecurity policies.
• Lead continual process improvements and evaluation of emerging technologies to ensure the program operates at the highest of standards of performance.
• Collaborate cross-functionally for investigations, refining risk models, and ensuring effective incident responses.
• Oversee an enterprise-wide user exception and device access waiver process while ensuring exceptional levels of service delivery.
• Regularly communicate with executive leadership regarding insider threat risks, findings, and recommended courses of action.
• Maintain currency of governance documentation, revising procedures, practices, and policies as necessary.
• Test and evaluate new insider risk management technology, particularly for user behavior analysis, risk detection and investigation management.
• Develop and mentor a diverse team of technical professionals to map out career development objectives, training, and opportunities for growth towards stated goals.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree required with a minimum of 8 years of relevant experience in cybersecurity, counterintelligence, or intelligence, etc.
• Demonstrated subject matter expertise in insider risk with a comprehensive knowledge of related directives, regulations, policies, and procedures.
• Demonstrated history of successful collaboration and thought leadership with external organizations and consortia that support insider risk management best practices.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, demonstrated ability to clearly communicate complex technical information to senior executive leadership and working groups, mentoring, and developing talent.
• Proven knowledge of data types and technologies relevant to insider risk detection, workforce training and awareness, and investigation management.
• Capacity to lead and manage across organizational disciplines and integrate technical and non-technical components of an insider threat program.
• Demonstrated commitment to the mentoring and professional development of others.
• Strong presentation, organizational, leadership, and communications skills.
• The ability to multitask, prioritize, work under time constraints and resolve issues with minimal supervision.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Completion of CERT Insider Threat Program Management certification course
• Professional experience applying information protection technologies such as Splunk, Forcepoint and various UEBA tools coupled to an insider risk management context that supports investigative and intelligence cycles.
• Minimum of 15+ years of intelligence or counterintelligence experience in positions of increasing responsibility, preferably in the US Intelligence Community and / or Diplomatic Security.
• Demonstrated history of influencing and driving change within teams and across an organization.

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